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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:12:41
Message-Id: 42D4E7BB.3070708@planet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots? by David Morgan
1 David Morgan schreef:
2
3 > You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see
4 > if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did
5 > emerge sync it'd get written over.
6
7 Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter
8 it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into
9 /etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked packages are also
10 keyword-masked).
11
12 HTH,
13 Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots? David Morgan <david.morgan@××××××××××××××××.uk>