On 2/2/2010 3:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
No, you completely misunderstand what stable, unstable and masked mean.
You are using stable (and call it unstable which is wrong). What you call
masked is actually called unstable. Masked is something else entirely.
Do not confuse these terms. They have *exact* meaning.
Has there ever been any discussion on coming up with more precise
wording for portage's error messages? I suspect a lot of confusion
between masked/keyworded comes from the fact that portage calls them all
"Masked", e.g.:
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=app-editors/vim-7.2.303" have been
masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
request:
- app-editors/vim-7.2.303 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
Not that I came up with any better wording off the top of my head, but
is the portage team open to suggestions? Or has this issue been beaten
to death already?
--K
