From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F5ALW-0000a5-QE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:28:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k13NR5k6017706; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:27:05 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k13NLeAW003867 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:21:41 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F5AFI-0006G1-Ga for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:21:40 +0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F5AFB-0004US-SO for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:21:34 +0100 Received: from adsl-68-74-146-31.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.146.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:21:33 +0100 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-146-31.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:21:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:13:58 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87psm4qbm1.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87slr0s07h.fsf@newsguy.com> <20060203200648.GC11645@halffull.org> <87fyn0rskh.fsf@newsguy.com> <20060203230219.6bc34590@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-146-31.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8VvDCscXmv3ovdJCDMvHTZr7fwk= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 3e6ed96a-3261-447e-8bdf-09d8712fed11 X-Archives-Hash: 3196766382c55e837b00b19d4c1ed963 Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:22:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Or are you saying I need to list ever dependance in there too? >> Its a very long list. I got as high as 12 and was still getting that >> message with yet another dependancy. > > You need to list every dependency in there, but first you need to find > out why they have all been masked in package.mask. There is usually a good > reason for hard-masking a package. The reason has been posted in a few messages in this thread or at least in my initial post; from /usr/portage/package.mask: # Donnie Berkholz (07 Aug 2005) # Modularized X, upstream release candidates And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the dependancies. root # equery depends x11-apps/xvidtune [ Searching for packages depending on x11-apps/xvidtune... ] No help there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list