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I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted |
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because the package I was after was actually installed already. |
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I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old |
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anyway. |
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I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage |
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for mesa libs I find: |
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media-libs/mesa [ Masked ] |
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Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 8,534 kB |
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Homepage: http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/ |
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Description: OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux |
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License: LGPL-2 |
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Ok, so far so good. I'm running iwth ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf |
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so this should work.. I'm thinking.... but it doesn't |
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root # emerge -vp media-libs/mesa |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies |
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!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/mesa" have been masked. |
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!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete |
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your request: |
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- media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask) |
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# Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> (07 Aug 2005) |
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# Modularized X, upstream release candidates |
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And the advice: |
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For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man |
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page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. |
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Ok, Its the only ebuild available .... |
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and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud |
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this circular masking problem. |
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Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me. |
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