Am Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:53:19PM +0200 schrieb Hoël Bézier:
That’s a different thing than masking a package using a package.mask file,
where the package is technically available for your architecture but someone
(usually you or the gentoo developpers) decided it wasn’t fit to be installed:
for instance the recent discovery of a backdoor in xz-utils-5.4.6 led the

xz-utils-5.6.0, my bad. See lines 46 to 60 of /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask.

gentoo developpers to mask this package, by adding it to the
/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask file which you retrieved by syncing
your gentoo tree.

Hoël

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