On Saturday 10 October 2009, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  for this weekend I planned to migrate to baselayout 2
>  finally.
>
>  On gentoo web I found this: 2.
>   Migration to OpenRC
>   Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in
>   as part of your regular upgrade process by your package manager.
>
>  I tried to check this (emerge -pv openrc) and found:
>   !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/openrc" have been masked.
>   !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request: - sys-apps/openrc-9999 (masked by: missing keyword)
>   - sys-apps/openrc-0.5.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>   - sys-apps/openrc-0.4.3-r4 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>   - sys-apps/openrc-0.4.3-r3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>   - sys-apps/openrc-0.4.3-r2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>   - sys-apps/openrc-0.4.3-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>   - sys-apps/openrc-0.4.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>   - sys-apps/openrc-0.4.1-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>
>  Especially "masked by: missing keyword" let me doubt whether
>  or not it is sane to migrate....
>
>  How to proceed here ?

Many users who populate this list have unmasked it and emerged it without a 
problem.  I am still holding onto the stable path and won't be upgrading as 
yet - perhaps because the benefits of doing so are not earth shattering, plus 
I'll have to learn new invocations to update my systems.  Mind you, I'll have 
to learn them sooner or later when it becomes stable.

YMMV.
-- 
Regards,
Mick