how can i unmask an ebuild?

chiatello · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:39 pm Post subject: how can i unmask an ebuild?

ok well heres the deal

i go to

#emege mozilla-thunderbird

blah blah, package is masked

so i look in

/usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask (or whatever that file is)

and there is no

mozilla-thunderbird line in there

so how can i unmask mozilla-thunderbird??

thanks alot

grinch · Apprentice Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 151

# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge mozilla-thunderbird
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xianx · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:58 pm Post subject:

To use the "unstable" version, I usually dont bother with the packages.mask file, i do this: