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On 2/2/2010 3:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> No, you completely misunderstand what stable, unstable and masked mean. |
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> You are using stable (and call it unstable which is wrong). What you call |
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> masked is actually called unstable. Masked is something else entirely. |
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> Do not confuse these terms. They have *exact* meaning. |
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Has there ever been any discussion on coming up with more precise |
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wording for portage's error messages? I suspect a lot of confusion |
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between masked/keyworded comes from the fact that portage calls them all |
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"Masked", e.g.: |
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!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=app-editors/vim-7.2.303" have been |
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masked. |
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!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your |
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request: |
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- app-editors/vim-7.2.303 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) |
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Not that I came up with any better wording off the top of my head, but |
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is the portage team open to suggestions? Or has this issue been beaten |
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to death already? |
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--K |
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