Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

[Mick]

On Sunday 18 February 2007 13:48, Jakob Buchgraber wrote:
> Jan Stępień wrote:

> > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
> > or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
[snip...]

> There is one interesting part in the output of emerge
>
>  >> x11-plugins/beryl-plugins-0.1.99.2 (masked by: missing keyword)
>
> This means that the package hasn't been tested yet.
> So you need to replace the following in package.keywords
> x11-plugins/beryl-plugins
> by
> x11-plugins/beryl-plugins ~x86
>
> If you are using another architecture than x86  (like amd64) you need to
> write ~amd64 instead

Before you do any of the above I suggest that you read MASKED PACKAGES section 
and KEYWORDS section within man emerge.  It's better that you understand what 
you are masking/unmasking in the long run and why.

-- 
Regards,
Mick