On Sat, 2022-02-19 at 09:54 -0600, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm just going to point to the gentoo page for this but I'd like to know > why something is in the tree if it is not available to anyone due to > missing keywords. > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/libreoffice
Probably just a way for the maintainers to test before releasing it to users. Libreoffice is huge and requires a lot of cooperation from other areas. An entry in package.mask is another (more common) way to add something to the tree while still marking it as "not ready yet." > Also, I noticed I have packages coming in from overlays or something I > don't have installed/enabled here, if they are overlays. This is one > recent example. > > root@fireball / # equery list -po firefox > * Searching for firefox ... > [-P-] [ ] www-client/firefox-91.6.0:esr > [IP-] [ ] www-client/firefox-97.0.1:rapid > root@fireball / # > Those are just slot names. Like EAPIs, slot names are typically integers, but pretty much anything is technically legal.
