John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> OK, thanks much -- the strange thing is when I did emerge -s php how
> come I did not see the php4 packages -- only the php5 ones?
That's simple - there are no "php4" or "php5" packagews. There's only
a php package (dev-lang/php), as can be seen by running "emerge -s php":
* dev-lang/php
Latest version available: 5.1.6-r8
Latest version installed: 5.1.6-r8
Size of files: 6,389 kB
Homepage: http://www.php.net/
Description: The PHP language runtime engine: CLI, CGI and Apache SAPIs.
License: PHP-3
Which version to emerge is determined by selecting the appropriate
version.
> Also, is there any way while doing a search to see the reason for a
> package being masked?
Check out the file profiles/package.mask in your portage tree;
eg. /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask.
Alexander Skwar
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