Carsten Lohrke wrote: > I don't see the necessity for devs and users would have to look at the > package.mask file regularly to get the information that a package is masked. > If Portage would be that smart to spit out the relevant information on > emerge --sync, a longer period would probably make sense.
Not that I'd care so much whether it's a week or a month (IMO individual
depending on ebuild in question) - so just a technical note. Portage 2.1
*does* spit out the relevant info.
# emerge -uDpv world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies /
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
net-ftp/glftpd
... done!
# esearch glftpd
[ Results for search key : glftpd ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* net-ftp/glftpd [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 2.01
Latest version installed: 1.32
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