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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:04:22
Message-Id: 486806E4.2070202@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick ha scritto:
2 > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0200, b.n. wrote:
3 >
4 >>>> - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask)
5 >>>> /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask:
6 >>>> #
7 >>>> # <jmbsviceto@g.o> (9 February 2008)
8 >>>> # glib-2.15 breaks some packages
9 >>>>
10 >>>> - dev-libs/glib-2.16.2 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
11 >>>> - dev-libs/glib-2.16.1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
12 >>>>
13 >>>> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
14 >>>> page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
15 >>>> (dependency required by "dev-cpp/glibmm-2.16.1" [ebuild])
16 >>> Sync again, glib-2.16.3 is not masked in the profile here.
17 >>>
18 >> Synced and nothing changed.
19 >>
20 >> Where should I look for? I have no package.mask in /etc/portage.
21 >
22 > I've just read the message more carefully and seen the problem, I only
23 > noticed the profiles/package.mask part, meaning it is masked in your
24 > profile, not /etc/portage, and didn't look carefully at the full path.
25 >
26 > This is masked in a profile from the desktop-effects overlay. It's
27 > nothing to do with the official portage tree, but a third-party overlay
28 > breaking things for you.
29
30 *slaps head with palm*
31 Thanks! How silly was I not reading that.
32
33 Now, what should I do? Ask to the desktop-effects guys? And *why* does
34 an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal?
35
36 I'm confused.
37
38 m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>