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On 10/25/2011 05:41 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: |
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> I don't want to compile the big thing - libreoffice, so I use |
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> libreoffice-bin instead. |
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> To prevent myself from emerging libreoffice by mistake, I add it to |
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> package.mask |
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> But there's a strange thing going on here. |
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> If the contents of package.mask are like this: |
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> app-office/libreoffice |
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> |
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> equery u libreoffice shows me the unstable version (9999) |
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> while if the contents are like this: |
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> -app-office/libreoffice |
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> |
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> equery u libreoffice shows the proper one, 3.4.3 (~amd64). |
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> Also, with other packages this is not the issue. They get masked |
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> (instead of getting unmasked) without that hyphen in the beginning. |
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equery seems to try to avoid masked packages. I guess when every |
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version of a package is masked, it just picks the latest available. |
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