Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

[Dale]

Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On Monday 23 October 2006 14:03, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>> On Monday 23 October 2006 19:33, Robert Cernansky wrote:
>>> e) it works fine
>>>
>>> f) it has no good alternative :-(
>> g) noone prevents you from using it as long as it still works
>>
>> h) if you really want it in the tree feel free to maintain it (you'll find
>>    it's no longer maintainable...)
>
> i) It appears that it's still a dependency for a lot of other programs:
>
> root@Merlin:/# emerge -uDvat world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies |
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-sound/xmms" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
> - media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r16 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> # Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@g.o> (23 Oct 2006)
> # Pending removal 23 November for multiple bugs
> # Use media-sound/audacious
>
> - media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r14 (masked by: package.mask)
> - media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15 (masked by: package.mask)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> (dependency required by "kde-base/kicker-applets-3.5.2" [ebuild])
>
>
>
> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for kde-base/kde-meta
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
>
>
> This is after I unmerged kopete because it was the requiring dependency and I
> don't use it.
>


Do you still have xmms in your USE line in make.conf?  I had to remove
mine, and replace with -xmms, when the error you have came up.  Then I
had to do a emerge -Nuv world to recompile a few packages that the
change affected.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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