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dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r6 is masked by official portage maintainer due to |
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security issues. |
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<quote> |
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$ emerge perl -vat |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-lang/perl" have been masked. |
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!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: |
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- dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r6 (masked by: package.mask) |
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/Users/hongqn/Gentoo/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: |
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# Torsten Veller <tove@g.o> (28 Jan 2009) |
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# Masked for testing (#249629) |
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# https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79685#c14 |
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For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge |
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man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. |
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</quote> |
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However, in the prefix portage tree, no ebuild other than the masked |
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one can be found. |
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<quote> |
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$ ls $EPREFIX/usr/portage/dev-lang/perl |
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ChangeLog Manifest files metadata.xml perl-5.8.8-r6.ebuild |
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</quote> |
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So nobody can emerge dev-lang/perl without unmask it by hand. Should |
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this be fixed? |
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-- |
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Qiangning Hong |