>>>>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Roy Bamford wrote:

> games-emulation/sdlmame is masked. I have a higher version in my
> overlay than the one in the tree and it gets masked too.  
> Its not a problem to me as I know how to manage it.  Its just untidy.

You still don't need a repository specific mask for this. Version
specific masking and unmasking is entirely sufficient to express that
the higher version is fine.

Ulrich