emerge -s {pack} could list the FEATURES line (i.e. [-~]x86) or "package.mask", when a package is masked. Or perhaps if a requisite package is masked ?
or instead of saying [ masked ] say package.mask: [ masked/broken ] ~arch: [ masked/testing] and when someone says `emerge <pkg>` where the entire pkg is masked (e, qmail-mysql), tell it *why* it is masked ... masked for broken, masked for testing, or not found at all
*** Bug 24807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I would definatly like to see this implemented, even if it is some rather cryptic message at the point of failure. My few encounters with masked packages have been less then fun......
Hrm, seems someone else wants this feature too :) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=777612
That would be really great. On Sparc (and other architectures other then x86) there are a lot of packages just not tested. So before I want to test it an emerge -s could tell you if it is really hard masked, or just not tested yet.
Created attachment 23867 [details, diff] patch, test and report
Perfect, thanks very much. You can have the cookies.
the patch works perfectly for me, how long until its put into the main tree? :)
Looks good to me on smp sparc64 running ~sparc. We need this!
Same as Josh Grebe, looking great on a smp sparc64 using ~sparc. No problems encountered.
in 2.0.50
