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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:57:35 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> ... but I found the problem. There was an old setting in |
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> /etc/portage/package.mask that needed to be cleared out (I had masked >= |
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> some 3.4 version of kioslaves, for reasons that I assume were good at |
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> the time, but I totally forgot that I had ever done it, so I certainly |
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> don't remember why I had done it). Removing that enabled the profile |
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> package.mask to work normally once I removed the bogus and unnecessary |
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> /etc/portage/package.unmask settings. |
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I had a similar experience last week, because I still had a zillion |
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">=kde-base/kwhatever-3.5.0_beta1" lines in portage.unmask so it wanted |
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to install all of KDE 3.5.1. |
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Time for a script to check for outdated entries in the /etc/portage files. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Modesty Becomes You. Try It More Often. |
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