Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net.eth0
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:44:56
Message-Id: 20030310064455.GA1614@Daikan.pandora.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net.eth0 by Frederick Reeve
1 On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:58:53AM +0100, Frederick Reeve wrote:
2 > No nodeps doesn't ignore the fact a package is masked allowing a merge
3 > of a package that is masked. Many masked packages will install and
4 > correctly especially when you are talking about whats masked out for
5 > alpha. a force option would allow users to easily test the masked out
6 > packages for themselves (without changing there package.mask file) and
7 > they in return could give you reports.
8
9 You mean the equivalent of
10 ~# emerge /usr/portage/<categorie>/<package>/<package>-<version>.ebuild
11 but without having to type everything? Because the above will not check if
12 the package is masked or not...
13
14 Mvg,
15 Sven Vermeulen
16
17 --
18 Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.