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On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with: |
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> emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0.9999 |
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> I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask |
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> But when I look there, I see: |
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> # Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> (10 Mar 2010) |
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> # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk. |
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> ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1.9999 |
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> ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.9999 |
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> ~virtual/emacs-24 |
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> With no explanation of what the Tilde means. |
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> Looking thru man emerge in the MASKED section there is only one mention of |
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> tilde and its in relation to notating architecture like ~x86. |
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> All Ulrich M. says is `use at your own risk' |
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> Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde |
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> means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the |
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> masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? |
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> PS- and by the way, there is no mention what so ever of `tilde' in |
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> man portage. |
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I think generally in portage tilde means "about". For example if you |
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want to mask ~foo-1.00 it will also cover foo-1.00-r1 etc. rather than |
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mask >=foo-1.0.0 and <foo-1.0.1 |
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