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On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:26, Hans Schou wrote: |
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> Where can I read more about "masked"? |
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I would suggest that you read part 2 and 3 from the handbook [1]. It really is |
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worthwhile. |
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> I have questions like: Why use |
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> unmask? Why not use unmask? If I unmask a package now, will that spoil the |
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> same package later? etc. |
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As you can see in part 2, chapter 1.d [2] packages may be masked in different |
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ways depending on whether it is not tested sufficiently to go in the stable |
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branch, not tested at all or simply broken. |
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Obviously you are running the stable branch (x86). Modular X (including |
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setxkbmap) still belongs to the testing branch (~x86) so you probably followed |
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[3] at some time because you wanted modular X (X.org 7.x). The fact that you |
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said you couldn't run emerge world suggests that you have unmasked setxkbmap |
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in the past by a specific version that doesn't cover version 1.0.2. Hence you |
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may run into this problem for a lot of packages that belong to modular X as |
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they are upgraded to newer versions that your /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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doesn't unmask. |
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The reasoning for unmasking is of course that you want newer software than is |
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available in the stable branch and the reasoning for not doing it is that you |
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want stability. Since this is just in ~x86 it is not broken and a lot of us |
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are using it. It is, however, not in stable and therefore you shouldn't run it |
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unless you are prepared to accept, that it might break at some point. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2 |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap4 |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml |
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Bo Andresen |
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