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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: how to prevent portage from installing masked package
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 06:50:39
Message-Id: slrnprjb5a.ud3.martin@fox.invalid
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to prevent portage from installing masked package by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > --Sig_/199FZt974m.Ua./7+MHQOSx
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6 > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 18:51:11 -0400, John Covici wrote:
7 >
8 >> > With USE=3D"atk-bridge adwaita-icon-theme" this "breakage" will not
9 >> > happen. =20
10 >
11 >> However -adwaita-icon-theme is followed by % -- does this not mean it
12 >> cannot be modified by the user?
13 >
14 > No, it means the flag is "newly added or removed", parentheses indicate a
15 > masked flag.
16
17 That being said, if you are not interested to ever disable any of
18 these two USE-flags, there is no reason to ever install gtk+:3
19 from the mv overlay. (The whole point of gtk+:3 in the mv overlay is
20 to make this functionality - hence the dependencies it brings -
21 optional.) I suggest that in this case you put
22
23 x11-libs/gtk+:3::mv
24
25 into your package mask instead of a particular version mask.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to prevent portage from installing masked package John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>