Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

[Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org>]

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Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> I don't see the necessity for devs and users would have to look at the 
> package.mask file regularly to get the information that a package is masked. 
> If Portage would be that smart to spit out the relevant information on 
> emerge --sync, a longer period would probably make sense.

Not that I'd care so much whether it's a week or a month (IMO individual
depending on ebuild in question) - so just a technical note. Portage 2.1
*does* spit out the relevant info.

# emerge -uDpv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies /
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
net-ftp/glftpd


... done!

# esearch glftpd
[ Results for search key : glftpd ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  net-ftp/glftpd [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 2.01
      Latest version installed: 1.32



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jakub


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