090426 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I installed eix and ran update-eix.  When I run 'eix dev-lang/python'
> it's highlighting version ~2.5.4-r2, which is what I have installed.
> If the 2.5.4-r2 version is "masked by keyword",
> why's it installed on my system?

What I get is :

  root:502 root> eix ^python$
    [I] dev-lang/python
    Available versions:
      (2.4)   2.4.4-r5 2.4.4-r6 2.4.4-r14 ~2.4.4-r15
      (2.5)   2.5.2-r7 ~2.5.2-r8 2.5.4-r2
      (2.6)   ~2.6-r5 ~2.6.1-r1 ~2.6.2
      {berkdb bootstrap build cxx doc elibc_uclibc examples gdbm ipv6 ncurses 
nocxx nothreads readline sqlite ssl threads tk ucs2 wininst xml}
    Installed versions:  2.5.4-r2(2.5)([2009-04-25 01:59:27])(gdbm ncurses 
readline sqlite ssl threads tk xml -berkdb -build -doc -elibc_uclibc -examples 
-ipv6 -ucs2 -wininst)
    Homepage:    http://www.python.org/
    Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented 
programming language.

Apparently, our version of Python was unmasked very recently.

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