[gentoo-user] Portage Difficulties

[Kris Kerwin]

Hi all,

Sorry about the obscure subject line, but I wasn't sure how to 
concisely and correctly describe the problem in only a few words.

I tried installing xorg 7.0, but of course, as it is masked, it didn't 
work. Since I'm a college student in the midst of finals, having a 
working graphical desktop is mission critical right now, and I don't 
have the time to tinker with it to get it to work. So, I reinstalled 
6.8.2-r6. I did my best to remove all of the modular dependencies 
that 7.0 installed (this was definantly the hardest part).

Now, however, whenever I try to emerge -Du world, I get warnings that 
various packages want to reinstall some of the dependencies from the 
7.0 tree, but can't because they're masked. Unfortunately, emerge 
isn't very verbose, even with the -v option, and only returns one 
blocker at a time (instead of all of them). Here is it's output as a 
sample of the problem:

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!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-libs/libX11" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your 
request:
- x11-libs/libX11-1.0.0-r2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man 
page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8" [ebuild])



!!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-plugins/xmms-oss
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
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Why is it that these various packages haven't switched their 
dependecies back to the 6.8.2-r6 virtual for x11-xorg? Why are they 
looking for dependencies from the 7.0 tree, still? Is it because I 
still have some rogue 7.0 packages installed on this computer? And of 
course, the mega-money question, how do I fix the problem? What other 
information do you need to aid in diagnosing the problem?

Thanks in advance for all of your help!

Kris Kerwin
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