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On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:47:56 -0400 |
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"John P. Burkett" <burkett@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> Starting March 14, whenever I have tried doing |
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> emerge -D -uav system |
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> the response has included |
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> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy |
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> ">=app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1[X]" have been masked. |
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> |
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> On my x86 box, the response adds |
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> - app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) |
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> On my amd64 machine, the equivalent line is |
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> - app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.0 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) |
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> |
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> The dependency listing is as follows: |
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> (dependency required by "app-editors/emacs-22.3-r2" [installed]) |
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> (dependency required by "app-emacs/po-mode-0.17" [installed]) |
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> (dependency required by "sys-devel/gettext-0.17" [installed]) |
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> (dependency required by "sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2" [installed]) |
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> (dependency required by "system" [argument]) |
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> [..] |
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> I'm not sure whether it would be safer to (a) emerge a masked version of |
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> emacs-common-gentoo-1.0 or to (b) alter the dependency structure, |
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> eliminating the requirement for emacs-common-gentoo-1.0. Further, I am |
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> not sure how to do either one. Suggestions would be much appreciated. |
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Looking at /usr/portage/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild, I see |
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that it depends unconditionally on app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo. |
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You cannot eliminate this dependency by changing USE flags. |
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The most natural solution is to tell Portage to accept the package |
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app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo, even though it is not officially stable. |
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To learn how to do this, read the portage man page and look |
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for package.keywords. |
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For quick, "cake recipe" instructions: |
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1) If there is a file named package.keywords in /etc/portage, |
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add to it the line |
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app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo |
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2) If there is a directory named package.keywords in /etc/portage, |
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you can create a file in it (the name of this file is irrelevant), |
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and add to this file the line |
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app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo |
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If there is already some file in /etc/portage/package.keywords, then, |
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at your option, you can either edit this file and add to it the line |
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app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo |
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or you can create a new file with this line. |
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