Jens-Uwe Mager wrote:
> 
> I appear to have difficulties understanding the package masking stuff.
> For a particular package (svn) I need a least db-4.0.14. This is
> appearently masked, but even if I set the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable
> according to the emerge man page I get:
> 
> $ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge -p =sys-libs/db-4.0.14
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "=sys-libs/db-4.0.14" have been
> masked.
> 
> !!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.
> $
> 
> What I am doing wrong?

I do not know, I stumbled into the same problem with another package
just a few hours ago. Does the following work?

emerge -p /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.0.14.ebuild

Regards,
        Stephan

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