Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100
Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi, guys
> >
> > Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage
> > started to show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve
> > Dibb for security reasons [1].
> >
> > Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but
> > I'm pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by
> > uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't
> > want to have problematic packages installed. What should I do in
> > this case?
> >
> >

[snip]

> 
> the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you
> could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to
> use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to
> play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files
> you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs.


Thanks for the reply.
I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries
when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this
time.


-- 
Best regards,
Daniel