On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:18, John covici wrote: > Also, is there any way while doing a search to see the reason for a > package being masked?
# eix -e php
[I] dev-lang/php
Available versions:
(4) !4.3.11-r5 4.4.4-r6 ~4.4.4-r8
(5) 5.0.5-r5 5.1.6-r6 ~5.1.6-r8
Description: The PHP language runtime engine: CLI, CGI and Apache
SAPIs.
This shows that 4.3.11-r5 is masked by missing keyword and 4.4.4-r8 is masked
by ~keyword. It's all explained in `man eix`. And of course it requires you to
install app-portage/eix. As an added bonus eix is way faster that `emerge -s`.
:)
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