Bug 2169

Summary:	Unmasking opt in emerge
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	dorphell <dorphell>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kevin, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description dorphell 2002-04-27 18:13:36 UTC

Somthing I would find useful in portage2 is an arg such as --nomask to be 
passed to emerge so if I wish to emerge an ebuild that's masked I don't have 
to go through the package.mask adventure.

Thanks for your time
Avri Faibish

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-15 00:09:05 UTC

you can do `emerge <ebuild>` and it will work even if its masked