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From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Cc: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:32:39
Message-Id: 1163914117.15872.20.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org
1 When I run 'emerge -Davu world' I get this message (and the emerge
2 fails):
3
4 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnome-base/gnome-libs" have
5 been masked.
6 !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
7 your request:
8 - gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (masked by: package.mask)
9 # Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o> (16 Nov 2006)
10 # GNOME 1.x Removal Mask (15 Dec 2006)
11
12 I assume that this means gnome-libs-1.4.2 is going to be removed in one
13 month. but lots of packages directly depend on gnome-libs:
14
15 # equery depends gnome-base/gnome-libs
16 [ Searching for packages depending on gnome-base/gnome-libs... ]
17 x11-misc/gtkdiff-1.8.0-r2
18 gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4
19 gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37
20 gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6
21 app-misc/gfontview-0.5.0-r6
22 gnome-extra/guppi-0.40.3-r3
23 dev-perl/gtk-perl-glade-0.7008-r1
24 dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7009-r2
25 media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5
26 dev-db/unixODBC-2.2.11-r1
27
28 Some of these packages have alternate version, what about the others?
29 Have those packages been made instantly obsolete? What exactl are users
30 supposed to do? I could find no guidance on the official Gentoo site,
31 nor on the Gentoo Wiki.
32
33 --- Vladimir
34
35 --
36 Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked? "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked? Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>