From package.mask: # Diego Petten<C3><B2> <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (25 Aug 2005) # Release Candidate =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc* =media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.10_rc* and so on... Why are these hard-masked, simply because they are a release candidate? I need them for microphone input on my SoundBlaster Live 24-bit. The ebuilds themselves are already soft-masked (~arch), and it's ALSA, so I doubt it'll break anything -- so I don't see why they need to be hard-masked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
(In reply to comment #0) > From package.mask: > > # Diego Petten<C3><B2> <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (25 Aug 2005) > # Release Candidate > =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc* > =media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.10_rc* > > and so on... > > Why are these hard-masked, simply because they are a release candidate? As written above. > I need them for microphone input on my SoundBlaster Live 24-bit. So unmask them in /etc/portage/package.unmask