Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with: emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0.9999
I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask But when I look there, I see: # Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> (10 Mar 2010) # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk. ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1.9999 ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.9999 ~virtual/emacs-24 With no explanation of what the Tilde means. Looking thru man emerge in the MASKED section there is only one mention of tilde and its in relation to notating architecture like ~x86. All Ulrich M. says is `use at your own risk' Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? PS- and by the way, there is no mention what so ever of `tilde' in man portage.
