A masked package is one that should not be installed because of a buggy ebuild file or
something else undesirable. /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask contains a list of
these files. a package can also be masked by its KEYWORDS variable in its ebuild
file; the architecture (say, x86) will be prefixed with a tilde (~) if it is masked.
you should really know what you're doing if you unmask a package and install it.
[lion-O]
> What does this mean:
>
> cow portage # emerge abiword
> Calculating dependencies
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "abiword" have been masked.
>
> !!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.
> cow portage #
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