* On 04.11.2005 Mark Knecht wrote:

>> [masking packages in /etc/portage/package.mask]
>
> I generally avoid putting these masks in as I seem to forget they are
> there. :-)

 This is the reason I have these lines in my user crontab (I have
read permissions on /etc/portage/package.mask)

,-----[crontab -l]
| #
| #   Show masked packages in /etc/portage/package.mask
| #
| 00      6   * * *   /bin/grep -v "^\#" /etc/portage/package.mask
`-----

 The output is mailed to me ;-)

 So long,
tkr

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