[gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output?

[gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output?

[Chris Stankevitz]

# emerge --oneshot --ask wxGTK

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   #] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.9.4.1

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Hello,

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".

Thank you,

Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output?

[Matthias Hanft]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] What does "#" mean in emerge output?

[Chris Stankevitz]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Matthias Hanft <mh@hanft.de> wrote:
> So your package seems to be masked by an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask.

Matt,

Thank you.  I read that very section but missed the definition of "#" somehow.

FYI in this case the package is masked by the devs and unmasked by me
in /etc/portage/package.unmask.

Chris