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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:13:18
Message-Id: m3va6fp6bq.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 08:26:15 -0400,
2 Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>]
5 > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:05:52 -0400, John Covici wrote:
6 >
7 > > Hi. I am in a situation where portage wants to install a package
8 > > which I have masked. Its wants to do this
9 > > [ebuild U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo]
10 > > but I want to keep the old one. Why is this happening and how can I
11 > > preventthe install of the newer gtk+ which breaks some accessibility
12 > > features?
13 >
14 > It's difficult to say without seeing the portage output but it is
15 > probably a package that needs the newer version. Add -t to the emerge
16 > command to see what requires the later GTK+, you'll probably need to mask
17 > that too.
18
19 OK, I thought it would just either refuse or tell me something, but I
20 will do that and see what I see. Thanks.
21
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