why is a package masked?

[hick518]

How can I find out the reason a particular package is masked (as determined by 'emerge -s lxqt-meta')?

 

On my stable generic_64 system, lxqt-meta is masked.  But on my current generic_64 system and my stable pentium4 system, it is not.  Same thing goes for the media-tv/kodi package.  So I'm wondering if I've screwed up my stable generic_64 system somehow, and if there's some way to verify the reason these packages are masked.

[aryvandaar]

LXQT is considered to be beta software. I think that would explain why it's masked on your stable system. 

 

In most cases, packages are masked because of one or more of these reasons:

 

- Alpha/beta.

- Known bugs in packages.

- Doesn't have builds for all architectures.

- Proprietary licensing.