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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:53:50
Message-Id: 20100314195032.7f683fd2@bellgrove.remarqs.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean by Harry Putnam
1 On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:03 -0500
2 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde
5 > means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the
6 > masked file... where do look to find out its meaning?
7
8 ~category/package-version denotes all revision ebuilds of that
9 version, e.g. category/package-version-r2.
10
11 I don't recall whether or where it's documented.
12
13 --
14 »Q«
15 Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.