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From: James Stevenson <james.al.stevenson@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to do anything if a package masked by my profile?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:18:19
Message-Id: CAJPAcrOEoFSwtaA36jaSM3sdnTFibTEuD=+o4FrDD8z_+9mO=Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to do anything if a package masked by my profile? by Neil Bothwick
1 Thank you for the advice, you've both been very helpful! I'll take a look
2 at it this evening.
3
4 James
5
6 On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 10:37 AM Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
7
8 > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:06:36 +0100, James Stevenson wrote:
9 >
10 > > I received a notification that one of my packages had been masked by my
11 > > profile. Am I correct in thinking that this issue will resolve itself in
12 > > 30 days?
13 > >
14 > > !!! The following installed packages are masked:
15 > > - x11-proto/xextproto-7.3.0-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
16 > > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
17 > > # Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> (10 Jun 2018)
18 > > # Packages combined into x11-base/xorg-proto.
19 > > #All reverse deps transitioned.
20 > > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #656250
21 >
22 > You shouldn't have any of these packages installed now, they should have
23 > been depcleaned after xorg-proto was installed. If depclean doesn't
24 > remove them, they still be required by a package in an overlay, that
25 > happened to me.
26 >
27 > emerge -cpv packagename
28 >
29 > should tell you why each package is still there.
30 >
31 >
32 > --
33 > Neil Bothwick
34 >
35 > WinErr 014: Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.
36 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to do anything if a package masked by my profile? John Blinka <john.blinka@×××××.com>