On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:33:00 +0200
Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > any ideas on what i might be doing wrong ?
> 
> Actually, you're not doing anything wrong. It's just that the package in
> question is hard-masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask so you'll
> have to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask to use it. But take
> notice of the comment in the mask-file for powershell as there's
> probably a somewhat good reason for it to be masked.
> 

Actually, this is only partially true.  The reasons for masking aren't
necessarily good/bad/rational.  For example, new versions of xfce/xfce4 have
been routinely masked, whereas I've never seen anything other than cosmetic
errors in any xfce release.

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