217543 – Adding the ability to arbitrarily mask ebuild in package.mask using wildcards

Bug 217543 - Adding the ability to arbitrarily mask ebuild in package.mask using wildcards

Summary: Adding the ability to arbitrarily mask ebuild in package.mask using wildcards

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204493

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2008-04-13 19:07 UTC by Michael
Modified:	2008-06-10 22:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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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

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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 ***