On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:09:26 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Can someone explain (or point me to a document which explains) exactly > > what the implications of the 'Masked' annotation... > > Masked means, as you assumed, that it is not considered 'production > ready' under gentoo. Could mean that it hasn't been fully tested yet, > could mean that there are issues with it, or it could simply mean that > it is dependant upon some other package that is masked for similar > reasons.
That is only one type of masking. In addition a package can be hard masked, in which case it is listed in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask along with the reasons for masking. It could also be masked because it does not run on your architecture. While the output from emerge --search only states that a package is masked, trying top emerge it will give more info. Or you can look it up on http://packages.gentoo.org -- Neil Bothwick I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
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