Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding KDE upgrade and "MASKED PACKAGES"

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 15:34:25 Chris wrote:
> After merging these packages, emerge immediately wanted to downgrade
> them, complaining about "Masked Packages".  I can't provide the text of
> that (I can't even read the whole thing), since it will not pipe to a file.

This sounds rather peculiar. AFAIK all "Masked Packages" messages go to stdout 
so it should be easy to redirect it to a file. But try:

# emerge $whatever &> $file

That catches stderr too..

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Bo Andresen