Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask ?
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 22:16:48
Message-Id: 20010702221648.B23269@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] package.mask ? by Ihsan
1 On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:45:51AM +0700, Ihsan wrote:
2 >
3 > hi all,
4 >
5 > 1. what is this message mean?
6 >
7 > ..... (possibly blocked by package.mask)
8
9 Developers can add packages to the /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file
10 that they feel are not ready to be used (if they are buggy or still need
11 testing). Any packages that match the deps in package.mask are ignored by
12 emerge.
13
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15 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
16 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
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