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Bug 949984 - Consider rephrasing "masked by" output
Summary: Consider rephrasing "masked by" output
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2025-02-19 22:08 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2025-02-19 22:09 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2025-02-19 22:08:44 UTC
We get people confused by Portage's "masked by: ~amd64 keyword" quite often.

The use/terminology here is correct, as "masked by" just means "not visible (because of)", but it's hard to explain that nuance to new users.

They often end up reading something is "masked" (meaning p.masked) and then get confused when they see the ~amd64 message. bug 949983 is one example but this comes up often.

To start discussion, maybe "unavailable because:"?