Bug 217543

Summary:	Adding the ability to arbitrarily mask ebuild in package.mask using wildcards
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michael <gent.8.madblock>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael 2008-04-13 19:07:54 UTC

It would be nice portage had the ability to mask or unmask ebuilds using wildcards. For example:
/etc/portage/package.mask:
*mozilla*

to mask everything from/for mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Le retraité 2008-05-25 14:35:26 UTC

I second this one.

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-10 22:33:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204493 ***