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On 10/26/11 13:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:29:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> 
>>> Mask higher versions in package mask
>>>   
>>>> cat/pkg-version.you.want  
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> I did, but as I said there where 350+ of them.  And every time I tried
>> to emerge anything else, I couldn't because some package I needed was
>> listed in package mask.
> 
> It's too late for this problem, but I'd recommend installing dmerge. It
> takes a snapshot of what is installed after each emerge --sync, and lets
> you roll back to a previous time (assuming the ebuilds are still in the
> tree).
> 
> 

Is it a problem that I share my /usr/portage directory from another
machine through NFS?