On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:00, brett holcomb wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:24:47 +0100
>   Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I believe that portage and ebuilds need a new feature 
> >that will mask a version 
> >of the ebuild for new installations, but will not force 
> >existing installs to 
> >be downgraded. 

[SNIP]

> Doesn't -U do that?

It seems to me that  -U doesn't downgrade packages masked with keywords
(e.g. ~x86), while it lets downgrade masked in
/usr/portage/profile/package.mask

Regards


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