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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Conveying important upgrade messages to user community
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:44:06
Message-Id: 20041117174424.407c662e@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Conveying important upgrade messages to user community by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:46:11 -0500
2 Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Actually, that would definitely be something that would be nice to
5 > see. There is already code in portage for this, in a way. Here's an
6 > example:
7 >
8 > # emerge drpython
9 > Calculating dependencies
10 > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "drpython" have been masked.
11 > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
12 > request:
13 > - dev-python/drpython-3.6.10 (masked by: package.mask)
14 > # <lucass@g.o> (15 Nov 2004)
15 > # Masking due to dependency on wxpython-2.5
16 >
17 > Now, the only problem with this, is this information would never be
18 > displayed unless *all* versions were masked.
19
20 Not really, it's shown when all *matching* versions are masked, so you'd
21 just have to specify a specific version to emerge. However, it only gets
22 the information from package.mask so it won't help you with
23 keyword-masked packages.
24
25 Marius
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