Bart van den Burg enlightened us with:
> I want to install MySQL 4.1.x, but all those packages are still "masked" ...
> I have no idea how to install masked packages.

man portage

> Can anyone put a list of commands here, which i can execute?

And what good will that do? Typing commands you don't understand is
very dangerous and also rather stupid.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?