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From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:45:48
Message-Id: 1163914907.15872.28.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked? by "Vladimir G. Ivanovic"
1 [Subject corrected to "gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?]
2
3 --- Vladimir
4
5 On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 21:28 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
6 > When I run 'emerge -Davu world' I get this message (and the emerge
7 > fails):
8 >
9 > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnome-base/gnome-libs" have
10 > been masked.
11 > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
12 > your request:
13 > - gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (masked by: package.mask)
14 > # Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o> (16 Nov 2006)
15 > # GNOME 1.x Removal Mask (15 Dec 2006)
16 >
17 > I assume that this means gnome-libs-1.4.2 is going to be removed in one
18 > month. but lots of packages directly depend on gnome-libs:
19 >
20 > # equery depends gnome-base/gnome-libs
21 > [ Searching for packages depending on gnome-base/gnome-libs... ]
22 > x11-misc/gtkdiff-1.8.0-r2
23 > gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4
24 > gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37
25 > gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6
26 > app-misc/gfontview-0.5.0-r6
27 > gnome-extra/guppi-0.40.3-r3
28 > dev-perl/gtk-perl-glade-0.7008-r1
29 > dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7009-r2
30 > media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5
31 > dev-db/unixODBC-2.2.11-r1
32 >
33 > Some of these packages have alternate version, what about the others?
34 > Have those packages been made instantly obsolete? What exactl are users
35 > supposed to do? I could find no guidance on the official Gentoo site,
36 > nor on the Gentoo Wiki.
37 >
38 > --- Vladimir
39 >
40 > --
41 > Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
42 >
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44 Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
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