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

[John Covici]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 02:48:08 -0400,
Martin Vaeth wrote:
>
> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > --Sig_/199FZt974m.Ua./7+MHQOSx
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> > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 18:51:11 -0400, John Covici wrote:
> >
> >> > With USE=3D"atk-bridge adwaita-icon-theme" this "breakage" will not
> >> > happen. =20
> >
> >> However -adwaita-icon-theme is followed by % -- does this not mean it
> >> cannot be modified by the user?
> >
> > No, it means the flag is "newly added or removed", parentheses indicate a
> > masked flag.
>
> That being said, if you are not interested to ever disable any of
> these two USE-flags, there is no reason to ever install gtk+:3
> from the mv overlay. (The whole point of gtk+:3 in the mv overlay is
> to make this functionality - hence the dependencies it brings -
> optional.) I suggest that in this case you put
>
> x11-libs/gtk+:3::mv
>
> into your package mask instead of a particular version mask.
>
>

OK, thanks, I will see what happens.

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