Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package

[John Covici]

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 09:32:24 -0400,
Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 9:12 AM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 08:26:15 -0400,
> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > >
> > > [1  <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>]
> > > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:05:52 -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi.  I am in a situation where portage wants to install a package
> > > > which I have masked.  Its  wants to do this
> > > > [ebuild     U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo]
> > > > but I want to keep the old one.  Why is this happening and how can I
> > > > preventthe install of the newer gtk+ which breaks some accessibility
> > > > features?
> > >
> > > It's difficult to say without seeing the portage output but it is
> > > probably a package that needs the newer version. Add -t to the emerge
> > > command to see what requires the later GTK+, you'll probably need to mask
> > > that too.
> >
> > OK, I thought it would just either refuse or tell me something, but I
> > will do that and see what I see.  Thanks.
> >
>
> It is already doing both.
>
> It is refusing to install the masked package, which is why it is
> aborting, and probably suggesting that you unmask it.  Likewise the
> big hash tag in the output is noting that is masked currently.
>
> The problem is that you're probably also telling portage something
> contradictory, like installing some package that requires the newer
> version of gtk+ (probably from your world set).  So, it isn't doing
> that either, and is giving you a bunch of output.
>
> Impossible to guess what the issue is without the full output, but as
> suggested sticking --tree and --verbose in there would help.  That
> will show the dependency relationships, and also USE flags which might
> be triggering them.
>
> If you have a package masked and nothing else is trying to pull it in,
> then portage will more quietly ignore it.  It is calling the situation
> to your attention because one way or another it won't be doing
> something you currently want it to (keeping some other package
> up-to-date, but also not installing this version of gtk+).

So, I have not been able to figure this out, it did not abort and
wants to install the masked package, so hear is the whole output ---
thanks for all your help.