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From: Matthias Hanft <mh@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:17:57
Message-Id: 50F2FA41.2050702@hanft.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output? by Chris Stankevitz
1 Chris Stankevitz wrote:
2 >
3 > In the above emerge instance, a "#" symbol appears in the emerge
4 > output. What does this mean? "man emerge" seems to skip this when
5 > describing these "OUTPUTS".
6
7 My "man emerge" says:
8
9 Symbol Mask Type
10 --------------------------
11
12 # package.mask
13 * missing keyword
14 ~ unstable keyword
15
16 NOTE: The unstable keyword symbol (~) will not be shown in cases in which the
17 corresponding unstable keywords have been accepted globally via ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
18
19 So your package seems to be masked by an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask.
20
21 -Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com>