I don't want to compile the big thing - libreoffice, so I use libreoffice-bin instead. To prevent myself from emerging libreoffice by mistake, I add it to package.mask But there's a strange thing going on here. If the contents of package.mask are like this: app-office/libreoffice
equery u libreoffice shows me the unstable version (9999) while if the contents are like this: -app-office/libreoffice equery u libreoffice shows the proper one, 3.4.3 (~amd64). Also, with other packages this is not the issue. They get masked (instead of getting unmasked) without that hyphen in the beginning. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
