[gentoo-user] Strange issue about package.mask

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

I don't want to compile the big thing - libreoffice, so I use
libreoffice-bin instead.
To prevent myself from emerging libreoffice by mistake, I add it to
package.mask
But there's a strange thing going on here.
If the contents of package.mask are like this:
app-office/libreoffice

equery u libreoffice shows me the unstable version (9999)

while if the contents are like this:
-app-office/libreoffice

equery u libreoffice shows the proper one, 3.4.3 (~amd64).

Also, with other packages this is not the issue. They get masked
(instead of getting unmasked) without that hyphen in the beginning.

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Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com