Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem

[Sebastian Sitaru]

Hello Helmut,

maybe that www-client/epiphany is a dependency after a package update (e.g.
version 1.0 of package X requires package y, but version 0.9 of X does
not). Another reason can be the USE-flags. May when you have been building
a packge you temporarily disabled an USE-flag (USE="-flag-to-disable"
emerge x), which is in your make.conf and activates an optional dependency
(in this www-client/epiphany, epiphany requires a newer version of
www-client/firefox and so on).
Hopefully this helped you a bit.

With best regards,
Sebastian

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on one of my machines
> emerge --update --deep --ask world
> is claiming
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies  ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
> ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .... !!! All ebuilds that could
> satisfy ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5" have been masked. !!! One of
> the following masked packages is required to complete your request: -
> www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.2 (masked by: package.mask) -
> www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.7 (masked by: package.mask) -
> www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.6 (masked by: package.mask)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
> or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> (dependency required by "www-client/epiphany-2.18.3" [ebuild])
>
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> -------------------------------------------
>
> BUT  www-client/epiphany  is no more installed on that machine.
> What can I do about this?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
>
> Helmut Jarausch
>
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> RWTH - Aachen University
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany