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Packages can be flagged as masked for a number of reasons. Mostly they are masked because they might break something, or they WILL break something. These tend to be masked in <tt>/usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask</tt>, and you can either forcibly install the package (see later), or unmask the package by commenting out the line. Note that this file is rebuilt everytime you emerge sync. There is rumour of support for a packages.unmask file, but this doesn't seem to work (16 Jun 2003)
The other reason packages can be masked is that they are in the 'unstable' branch of the gentoo tree. This is essentially the same as unstable in debian. Sometimes things will break, othertimes they'll be fine. You're on your own.
-The only recommended way to install masked packages is to add to <tt>/etc/portage/packages.keywords</tt> an entry for the package you want to build. Do NOT
, whatever you do, emerge the <tt>.ebuild</tt> directly, or try to override <tt>ACCEPT_KEYWORDS</tt> on the CommandLine. Eg., if you want to emerge [XFce]4 from the unstable tree, do:
+The only recommended way to install masked packages is to add to <tt>/etc/portage/packages.keywords</tt> an entry for the package you want to build. Do __not__
, whatever you do, emerge the <tt>.ebuild</tt> directly, or try to override <tt>ACCEPT_KEYWORDS</tt> on the CommandLine. Eg., if you want to emerge [XFce]4 from the unstable tree, do:
<verbatim>
echo wm-x11/xfce4 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo =wm-x11/xfce4-4.0.0 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords # specific version of the package
echo ~wm-x11/xfce4-4.0.0 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords # all revisions of a specific version
</verbatim>
