# IMPORTANT: In order to parse this new format, you need Portage 1.6 or later!
# OK; you're staring at this file and you have no idea what these stars are
# for.  Here's the scoop.  An initial "*" marks a package that is part of the
# official "base" system profile.  If there's a "*", then "emerge system" will
# use the line in its calculations of what "should" be installed for this
# profile.  Lines without a "*" prefix will be ignored for profile
# calculations.
# Now, this is new: *all* lines (star or no star) will be used as a special
# package *inclusion* mask.  For example, the line *=sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r1
# will cause Portage to totally ignore all gcc ebuilds other than
# gcc-2.95.3-r1.  >=, <=, <, > and ~ can be used to offer a bit more
# flexibility.  For example, >=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.4 will cause emerge to ignore
# all glibc ebuilds with a version less than 2.2.4.  This allows us to have
# profile-specific package.mask settings.  *All* lines are used for this
# masking process, whether they are prefixed with a * or not.  And if a generic
# dep is used, like "sys-apps/foo", then all versions of foo are included.  If
# there is no entry, then all versions of an app are included.  The key thing
# to note is that this file does not need to end up being an exhaustive list
# of portage packages; just the ones critical to this profile.
# So, what happens to /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask?  It's still around,
# and still useful.  But it should mainly be used for broken ebuilds only.
# package.mask continues to function as normal, masking out ebuilds from *all*
# system profiles.
# Which to use?  Use the profile-specific stuff to "lock down" specific
# versions of ebuilds.  Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6 uses certain known-compatible
# versions of binutils, gcc and glibc, so we lock them down here.  This
# prevents the user from shooting himself/herself in the foot by installing a
# wacky version.
!dev-lang/gpc
*>=sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.3
*>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.36
*~sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.4
*>=sys-devel/gcc-3.2
*=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r7
~sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.18-r2
>=sys-apps/sysklogd-1.4.1
*dev-lang/python
# xfree 4.2.1 will be the initial version for alpha but its not finished yet
#>=x11-base/xfree-4.2.1
# sash - static shell for system recovery
*app-shells/sash
*sys-devel/perl
*app-editors/nano
#no real cost for nano, since we already have ncurses
*net-ftp/ftp
*net-misc/dhcpcd
*net-misc/rsync
*net-misc/wget
*sys-apps/bash
*sys-apps/bzip2
*sys-apps/kbd
*sys-apps/cpio
*sys-apps/debianutils
*sys-apps/diffutils
*sys-apps/e2fsprogs
*sys-apps/ed
*sys-apps/fbset
*sys-apps/file
*sys-apps/fileutils
*sys-apps/findutils
*sys-apps/gawk
*sys-apps/grep
*sys-apps/groff
*sys-apps/gzip
*sys-apps/hdparm
*sys-apps/iptables
*sys-apps/less
*sys-apps/man
*sys-apps/man-pages
*sys-apps/modutils
*sys-apps/net-tools
*sys-apps/netkit-base
*sys-apps/procps
*sys-apps/psmisc
*sys-apps/sed
*sys-apps/setserial
*sys-apps/sh-utils
*<sys-apps/shadow-5
*sys-apps/pam-login
*sys-apps/sharutils
*sys-apps/tar
*>=sys-apps/texinfo-4.2-r5
*sys-apps/textutils
*sys-apps/util-linux
*sys-apps/which
*sys-devel/autoconf
*>=sys-devel/automake-1.6.1-r6
*sys-devel/bc
*sys-devel/bison
*sys-devel/flex
*sys-devel/gettext
*>=sys-devel/libtool-1.4.1-r9
*sys-devel/m4
*sys-devel/make
*sys-devel/patch
*sys-libs/cracklib  
*<sys-libs/db-3.2.10
*sys-libs/gdbm  
*>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2.20020511-r2
*sys-libs/pam     
*sys-libs/pwdb      
*sys-libs/readline  
*sys-libs/slang
*sys-libs/zlib
*net-misc/openssh
*sys-apps/devfsd
# not using supersed yet
# *sys-apps/supersed