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From: "John P. Burkett" <burkett@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] mask
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:48:01
Message-Id: 49CE70DC.3070105@uri.edu
1 Starting March 14, whenever I have tried doing
2 emerge -D -uav system
3 the response has included
4 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
5 ">=app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1[X]" have been masked.
6
7 On my x86 box, the response adds
8 - app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
9 On my amd64 machine, the equivalent line is
10 - app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.0 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
11
12 The dependency listing is as follows:
13 (dependency required by "app-editors/emacs-22.3-r2" [installed])
14 (dependency required by "app-emacs/po-mode-0.17" [installed])
15 (dependency required by "sys-devel/gettext-0.17" [installed])
16 (dependency required by "sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2" [installed])
17 (dependency required by "system" [argument])
18
19 Doing
20 emerge -D -uav world
21 elicits similar messages.
22
23 I'm not sure whether it would be safer to (a) emerge a masked version of
24 emacs-common-gentoo-1.0 or to (b) alter the dependency structure,
25 eliminating the requirement for emacs-common-gentoo-1.0. Further, I am
26 not sure how to do either one. Suggestions would be much appreciated.
27
28 John
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32 --
33 John P. Burkett
34 Department of Economics
35 University of Rhode Island
36 Kingston, RI 02881-0808
37 USA
38
39 phone (401) 874-9195

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Re: [gentoo-user] emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] mask Jorge Morais <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>