On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with: > > emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0.9999 > > I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask > > But when I look there, I see: > # Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> (10 Mar 2010) > # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk. > ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1.9999 > ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.9999 > ~virtual/emacs-24 > > With no explanation of what the Tilde means. > > Looking thru man emerge in the MASKED section there is only one mention of > tilde and its in relation to notating architecture like ~x86. > > All Ulrich M. says is `use at your own risk' > > Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde > means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the > masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? > > PS- and by the way, there is no mention what so ever of `tilde' in > man portage.
I think generally in portage tilde means "about". For example if you want to mask ~foo-1.00 it will also cover foo-1.00-r1 etc. rather than mask >=foo-1.0.0 and <foo-1.0.1
