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From: Bo Andresen <bo.andresen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want to upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 00:28:29 +0200
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On Thursday 06 April 2006 23:45, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> How do I prevent my server from upgrading to Xorg 7.0 modular
> (although ideally, I would like to upgrade any 6.x regular Xorg versions
> that come along).
[SNIP]
> server portage # cat /etc/portage/package.mask
> =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6
>
> But when I do an "emerge -Davu world" it still tries to pull xorg
> dependencies:
>
> !!!(dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1" [ebuild])
>
> I *DO* have this in my package.keywords file, along with a bunch of other
> ones for KDE/Gnome/etc:
>
> x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86
>
> But shouldn't the 'mask' file have priority?

You really seem to have misunderstood the concept of masked packages. Richard 
and Neil have told you what to do but I would advise you to read the 
following:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap4
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3

-- 
Bo Andresen
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