Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:03 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde >> means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the >> masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? > > Try man 5 ebuild. > > "~ means match any revision of the base version specified."
Thanks... now I can go ahead and trash my system... hehe. Seriously, Do you know why emacs-24 is masked like that? What little I know of Ulrich Mueller is that he is quite a stalwart fellow and not much would get by him. I guess its just that its the cvs version eh?
