On January 12, 2004 10:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One place is the changelog in the app's directory in portage.
>
> > From: "Roy Kidder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2004/01/12 Mon AM 08:27:58 EST
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] masked packages
> >
> > In looking through the stock tree of packages, there are quite a few that
> > are masked. I've read through what docs there are on masking, but still
> > have one question:
> >
> > Is there any way to tell why a particular package is masked?

i always just look in /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask  it has a descent 
list of why *some* packages are currently masked.  it'd be nice though if i 
could find a centralised collection of this stuff somewhere.  maybe something 
like:

  emerge --search --reason-why-masked <query>  ?

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the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for
the appalling silence of the good people.
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