From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kz8JO-0005WO-6p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:18:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03862E037B; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B0EE037B for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:18:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so1079853nfi.26 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:18:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=nlvvmdV296KPMO7V/4Ni1Mo/Ge103w/QTXLLc9xj/ic=; b=Slr6sVlCGfzuDMKyi0kpqonYMSgCllurucw8PFGn6YwvtvdF0VbgnekgJ6Nw+bGD3n AL3NpLaf8Z/4xUZ6cSBuq5TOVV42fx8sP/8n6XV9ab9tze7+7TZEKMcl9tnOe+Gr11Pv Bji3qU4wTZdCm+JpzSrBISYrjUsjlhrULdEhk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=JEVFNkFNLVhTYEiimej/NeiXksotb3NcuNGCMwgYZ0md1RSnRUMtZgYHJatFTAkKwV IMLgdF3lU5NIbuDR+3ONR8W0qlxqqB33UXICAPXCbNmo6LpVxE3U55Po1dTTOFb0SEFU NOjmSS2BLdYm/uf0MmsfjgjxX3kN7vwoqQ8mM= Received: by 10.210.86.10 with SMTP id j10mr6325395ebb.129.1226229508726; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:18:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.19.6 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 03:18:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:18:28 +0000 From: Beso To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked In-Reply-To: <20081108233742.6e86e0b9@ilievnet.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081107103611.57599095@ilievnet.com> <20081108233742.6e86e0b9@ilievnet.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6add4a0a-33f6-4958-ad3c-9771d84bab90 X-Archives-Hash: 9c1ee3e61184bc12eede9e7a3117f20c 2008/11/8 Daniel Iliev : > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100 > Beso wrote: > >> 2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev : >> > >> > 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. > just unmask the full version with =media-libs/amd64codecs-20071007 -- dott. ing. beso