On 10/25/2011 05:41 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
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.
equery seems to try to avoid masked packages. I guess when every
version of a package is masked, it just picks the latest available.
