>>On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brett Campbell wrote: > 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.
abiword seems to be listed (along with a BUNCH of other stuff under the title "Moved in the big GNOME move". Exactly what sort of portage reorg took place in regards to GNOME, and what does that mean as far as all the packages that are masked because of it? -- Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029 conceit, but in humility consider others [EMAIL PROTECTED] better than yourselves." - Philippians 2:3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
