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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:13:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080630001311.23a27392@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486806E4.2070202@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:04:20 +0200, b.n. wrote:

> > This is masked in a profile from the desktop-effects overlay. It's
> > nothing to do with the official portage tree, but a third-party
> > overlay breaking things for you.  

> Now, what should I do? Ask to the desktop-effects guys?

Seems a reasonable question.

> And *why* does 
> an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal?

Because masking is global, the sum of all the package.mask files is
applied to the system as a whole.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-29 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-29 18:39 [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why? b.n.
2008-06-29 18:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-06-29 20:45   ` b.n.
2008-06-29 21:24     ` Daniel Iliev
2008-06-29 21:36     ` Neil Bothwick
2008-06-29 22:04       ` b.n.
2008-06-29 23:13         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-06-29 23:56           ` b.n.
2008-06-30 15:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-06-30 18:02   ` brullo nulla
2008-06-30 17:06     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-06-30 20:57       ` b.n.

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