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From: Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
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David Morgan schreef:

> You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see
> if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did
> emerge sync it'd get written over.

Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter
it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into
/etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked packages are also
keyword-masked).

HTH,
Holly
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