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From: Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 15:29:21
Message-Id: 4470828F.6040608@vista-express.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages by Jonathan Chocron
1 Jonathan Chocron wrote:
2
3 >Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit :
4 >
5 >
6 >>I get the following error:
7 >>
8 >>root@Merlin:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world
9 >>
10 >>These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
11 >>
12 >>Calculating world dependencies -
13 >>!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-misc/neon-0.25.3" have been
14 >>masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
15 >>your request: - net-misc/neon-0.25.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
16 >>- net-misc/neon-0.25.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
17 >>
18 >>For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
19 >>refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
20 >>!!! (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.1" [ebuild])
21 >>
22 >>!!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/unison
23 >>!!! Depgraph creation failed.
24 >>
25 >>
26 >>Curiously, gnome-vfs isn't installed on my system. (I don't even use
27 >>gnome.) Should I simply unmask neon or is there a better way to handle this
28 >>error?
29 >>
30 >>
31 >
32 >One of your package must depend on gnome-vfs, and tries to pull it when you
33 >emerge -Dup world (maybe it's just the upgrade that depends on it, most
34 >probably because of a new useflag).
35 >
36 >You could just unmask neon, but IMHO, gnome-vfs and neon would be installed on
37 >your system during the upgrade process, and I don not think that's something
38 >you want.
39 >
40 >Try a qdepends -Q gnome-vfs to figure out what package is pulling it, and
41 >fiddle the useflags accordingly.
42 >
43 >BTW, what version of portage are you using ?
44 >
45 >Regards,
46 >
47 >-- Jonathan
48 >
49 >
50 >
51 >
52
53
54 You could add the -t option to see what is bringing it in too. I'm bad
55 to do this:
56
57 emerge -uvtp world and then see what is happening and what pulls in what
58 including USE flags. Can add the -D option if needed.
59
60 Dale
61 :-)
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