Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Wed, March 14, 2007 09:32, Lucian Muresan wrote:
>>> Doesn't "*-" mean that you need to add the package to the
>>> /etc/portage/packages.unmask file?
>> I don't know (or remember now) if that's a common policy dictated by
>> some eclass, or it's just package specific. If it's package specific it
>> might not affect the kaa-* pacs as they're completely unknown to
>> mainline portage anyway.
> 
> Packages masked with "-*" can be unmasked by adding the package to
> /etc/portage/package.keywords with the "-*" keyword. This is not related
> to package.unmask
> 
> KEYWORDS="-*" actually means "This package does not work on any arch".
> Because of this the use of "-*" is discouraged and currently being phased
> out [1] in favor of the "**" keyword (which can also be defined as
> KEYWORDS="" in the ebuild).
> 
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160519

Thanks Harm, that's interesting to know.

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