It has a lot of pending bugs (>30) and someone said development has been
abandoned (I dont know), I think it's great to mask it but not removing it
from portage until we have xmms2 available. Some ppl may want to use it
anyway.

On 10/24/06, Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> Am Dienstag 24 Oktober 2006 19:37 schrieb Mark Haney:
> > So what's the deal with xmms and mplayer, when I went to update this
> > morning, this is what I get:
> >
> > !!! 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, ~amd64 keyword)
> > # Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (23 Oct 2006)
> > # Pending removal 23 November for multiple bugs
> > # Use anything but this, like media-sound/audacious
> > # media-sound/amarok media-sound/mpd media-sound/rythmbox
> > # media-sound/muine media-sound/banshee
> >
> > - 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 "media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8" [ebuild])
>
> I had similar problems yesterday night, i unmasked all the packages and
> xmms
> is still fine as it was before. no crashes, no excessive cpu usage or
> anything. why are all those packages masked?
>
> >
> >
> >
> > !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-video/mplayer
> > !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> >
> > Are the two issues related?  Or separate?  And how do I fix it?
>
> my pmlayer compiled without issues, so i dont think it is related.
>
> >
> >
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> ^^definitely...
>
>
>
> cu
>
> Dieter
> >
> > Mark Haney
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