On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:57:59 -0600
Jerome Potts <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are the parentheses around the most recent version ? What is
> that "K" next to it ? At the bottom it offers "K: keyword", but i'm
> not making sense of it.
As it says at the bottom of the output, those are the reasons that a
package is masked (unable to be installed). A keyword mask means
that, for example, the package has KEYWORDS="~x86", but your're only
accepting x86 in your keywords.conf file.
> Also, what are those {:0} ?
The {:0} indicates the SLOT of that package version. You may only have
one version of a package in the same slot installed at any given time.
Most times, this is simply 0, but for some packages (such as qt), it is
different for different major versions.
> What's the asterisk suffixing the installed version number ?
That shows which specific package's metadata is being shown below. In
this case, it's the currently installed version.
> Looking at a second sample, things are a bit different: the "~"
> keyword is now the one between parentheses, that doesn't seem
> consistent with the previous example. Is it because i have
> "media-gfx/fontypython x86 ~x86" in my keywords.conf ?
Yes, that is exactly why. You've overridden the keyword mask, so the
entire version isn't masked (surrounded in parenthesis), just the mask
keyword is. This is why the key says 'unstable accepted'.
--
Mike Kelly
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