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From: Fernando Meira <fmeira@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:29:25
Message-Id: a3c2e88b0510280520q293a6ad3hb5c77fd1f5b1bc82@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package? by Jules Colding
1 On 10/28/05, Jules Colding <colding@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is
6 > in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing
7 > package.mask?
8 >
9 >
10 > Thanks,
11 > jules
12
13
14 Hi,
15 yes, you should not change /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but instead
16 add the package you want to /etc/portage/package.unmask in the same fashion
17 as you use for package.keywords. After this, you package is no longer
18 hard-masked, but you may still need to add it to package.keywords..
19
20 HTH,
21 Fernando