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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:40:00
Message-Id: 87371y71do.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion by Mick
1 On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote:
2
3 > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote:
4 >
5 >> What I do in the meantime is
6 >>
7 >> emerge --update --pretend @world
8 >>
9 >> and then manually
10 >>
11 >> emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk
12 >>
13 >> I do a similar procedure for
14 >>
15 >> emerge @preserved rebuild
16 >>
17 >> allan
18 >
19 > It is probably easier to just run:
20 >
21 > emerge --update --pretend --exclude webkit-gtk @world
22
23 That was mentioned last week. I responded
24
25 I tried that a while ago. The problem is that then portage believe
26 those packages aren't on my stable system and says that I must merge
27 an unstable package.
28
29 Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk,
30 portage wants me to merge a newish (testing) version of gnucash that
31 uses a solid new version of webkit-gtk. I have the new version of
32 webkit-gtk, but really want to delay installing the testing gnucash.
33
34 allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion John Blinka <john.blinka@×××××.com>