Knowledge Base:Masking a package

Synopsis
Sometimes you don't want Portage to take a certain package or a specific version of a package into account. This can be, because a new version fails to work or drops functionality, etc.

Environment
Any Gentoo installation

Analysis
Portage knows methods, you can mask packages yourself.

Resolution
To mask e.g. versions newer than :


 * Using file


 * Using directory
 * Create the directory, if it does not exist yet:


 * Create a file for the mask operation you want to perform: