From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA0413845D for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8679A21C06B; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from n.hanft.de (n.hanft.de [213.95.70.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE99121C03A for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.hanft.de (home.hanft.de [213.95.133.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by n.hanft.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF2AE1B8115 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:17:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from mh.local (mh.local [10.15.5.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mh) by fileserver.hanft.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF15B18415A; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:17:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <50F2FA41.2050702@hanft.de> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:17:37 +0100 From: Matthias Hanft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e4dcb5c2-6cc7-46c4-ad22-eba61577fc26 X-Archives-Hash: 85f079d49c3aeccb497d30c89297fc58 Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > In the above emerge instance, a "#" symbol appears in the emerge > output. What does this mean? "man emerge" seems to skip this when > describing these "OUTPUTS". My "man emerge" says: Symbol Mask Type -------------------------- # package.mask * missing keyword ~ unstable keyword NOTE: The unstable keyword symbol (~) will not be shown in cases in which the corresponding unstable keywords have been accepted globally via ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. So your package seems to be masked by an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask. -Matt