Re: [gentoo-dev] Why no local mask override? (PS)

[Luke Maurer <maurerl@carleton.edu>]

Sez Mike:

> solutions are being worked on to address.  so the answer is
> 'its not done' ;)
> -mike

Ah. Okay, that's legit. :-)

Sez Spider:

> > for instance, if one is running GNOME 2 but using some GNOME 1.4 apps
> > (i.e. one is running GNOME 2), and one wants them to have a nice GTK1
> > theme, one has to unmask it.
> 
> No, you just have to emerge the right version. the hierarchy in
> x11-themes/ has changed, look at how to emerge a specific version
> instead of unmasking.

Actually, it looks like things have changed since I last ran into this
problem: It used to be that emerge would refuse a masked ebuild even
when specified by filename. It looks like this is no longer the case -
meaning that, after all, there is an equivalent, though somewhat less
elegant, to a --nomask option. But I couldn't find mention of this in
the changelog; shouldn't this be more well-known? It would make for far
easier answers to all those "how to unmask such-and-such" posts.

Luke Maurer
maurerl@carleton.edu

P.S. I really don't mean to be a curmudgeon; this is merely a pet peeve.
Gentoo rocks.