Carsten Lohrke wrote:
This is not the case. At least unless the user actively looks at package.mask. Since Portage doesn't provide the information, this point is void. And even if - four weeks are a too long, imho.
It does. Almost all users do emerge -u world when updating their system. Their portage will then tell them that the package is masked and why. So they DO get informed.
-- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
