[olug] emerge a "masked" package?

[Steve Busby]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 19:14 -0500, Daniel Linder wrote:
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> Guys,
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> I'm wanting to emerge the "jpgraph" package (a PHP based graphing
> package), but it is masked by the "~x86" mask.  Is there a way to run
> emerge from the command line and tell it to allow the ~86 masked packages
> for just this single run?
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> Dan

Dan,

First a disclaimer about installing/using masked packages:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap4

Then straight from the Gentoo Forums/FAQ:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-33534.html


BuzB