on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '9999' version package. I vaguely recall that '9999' packages are special somehow. How is that?
-- :wq
