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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100 |
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Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>: |
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> > Hi, guys |
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> > Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage |
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> > started to show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve |
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> > Dibb for security reasons [1]. |
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> > Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but |
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> > I'm pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by |
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> > uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't |
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> > want to have problematic packages installed. What should I do in |
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> > this case? |
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> the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you |
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> could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to |
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> use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to |
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> play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files |
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> you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs. |
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Thanks for the reply. |
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I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries |
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when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this |
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time. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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