Bugzilla Bug 134440

Run "equery list", some of the lines will show :

[I--] [M~] x11-libs/liblbxutil-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [M~] x11-libs/libXfont-1.1.0 (0)
[I--] [M~] x11-apps/rgb-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [M~] media-fonts/font-util-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [M ] dev-lang/python-2.3.5 (2.3)
[I--] [M~] app-doc/xorg-docs-1.0.1 (0)

That M in the second bracket is not documented anywhere in "man equery" or "man
emerge" or the FAQ forum at : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-26640.html

Reference : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=3340700#3340700

Created an attachment (id=141355) [edit]
Patch adding requested information to man page

Thanks Mike.  The patch is in subversion.

$ svn commit -m "Add description of equery list output to man page (Bug
#134440)"
Sending        equery/equery.1
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 459.

*** Bug 198219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=141355) [edit]
> Patch adding requested information to man page
> 

I think there is something wrong with the patch. the capital 'M' does not imply
hard mask. It appears when current combination of ebuild's keywords, your
accepted keywords with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS or /etc/portage/package.(un)mask files.

In my system wine is masked in etc/package.mask `` <app-emulation/wine-0.9.42
''
And >app-emulation/wine-0.9.47 has ~x86 in ebuild. And wine-0.9.46 is
installed.

$ equery list -p wine
[-P-] [M-] app-emulation/wine-0.9.39 (0)
[-P-] [M-] app-emulation/wine-0.9.40 (0)
[-P-] [M-] app-emulation/wine-0.9.41 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.42 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.43 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.44 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.45 (0)
[-P-] [M~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.47 (0)
[-P-] [M~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.48 (0)
[-P-] [M~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.49 (0)
[-P-] [M~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.50 (0)

$ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" equery list -p wine
[-P-] [M-] app-emulation/wine-0.9.39 (0)
[-P-] [M-] app-emulation/wine-0.9.40 (0)
[-P-] [M-] app-emulation/wine-0.9.41 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.42 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.43 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.44 (0)
[-P-] [ -] app-emulation/wine-0.9.45 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.47 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.48 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.49 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-emulation/wine-0.9.50 (0)


The logic behind can be seen at lines 1537-1557 of /usr/bin/equery

correction:

It appears when current combination of ...... prevent the package from being
installed(i.e. masked)

Released in gentoolkit-0.2.4_rc2