## emerge /usr/portage/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.ebuild ... ** You are emerging a masked package. It is MUCH better to use *** /etc/portage/package.* to accomplish this. See portage(5) man *** page for details. >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... Continuing... in: 10 9 8 so, I tried to add >=mozilla-thunderbird-1.0 to package.unmask with a combination of paths preceding it, but nothing seemed to convince emerge that I had allowed thunderbird 1.0 to replace 0.8. (This is on an amd system.) Maybe we can enhance the error message to write exactly the line that should be added to package.unmask? regards, /iaw Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
It's probably ~arch.
...and it would be even better if we added an English explanation to the various blocking messages, than let new users guess what they mean (or dig around manuals). regards, /iaw
There is no real need to dig around in manuals trying to decrypt non-English explanations at all. If you take the time to flick through the handbook just once, I'm sure it'll all be clear.
fortunately, you did not decide to go with error code 52, and ask the reader to look it up in a handbook. ;-) actually, I flick around every time to find the explanation. given that I run x86_64, one would imagine I could remember this by now. the cost of a better explanation would be small.
steps to read documentation: goto documentation page click for handbook click amd64 link scroll down to 'Working with Portage' RTFM
