From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgPAX-0004vA-DT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:33 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id 87F9FE09C2; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55275E0C5F; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12805E0C5F for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so4435696ewy.14 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:44:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=6g/4G1xx37NV9zd4XmAZHIIZN7uOSQWWQdeL12F0T6Q=; b=uAuZ0oTQEFw0wb+5ij0GfWKkI4jzQxulj/6F+k/Hdi8mz+knlPPjX7Pd5GNwDCgG9b RFjUBfZN6kVJy3/IFMAJo8KavHOtvWjDZi4wxBMs1PA82Upum7422VHQniUXWEbSpx26 OBSsGXFlcCfSSxlB6/3rHy7Yqur0OAwkG0ZTA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=rlTiazOfvHfY1wCcZhW1EypX9RCxXzRftPAZeAA1nC63nd6kLczcGs1HWt2/kempJ5 z2I3KVOglgxZctSjRmNdMQLPII7O4FTzLd97qfZ6832OnUd21y26tHGhpoWXDiNa7JA/ LQP6EZE6T/Bmh2JQFshlQIpqzibeNv3YKZWMg= Received: by 10.210.87.14 with SMTP id k14mr5416413ebb.26.1251272674559; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm2205549eyg.10.2009.08.26.00.44.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:44:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ? Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:43:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090826023245.GA5818@solfire> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908260943.02995.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fde68d49-4339-4536-a59e-ee79a642b04a X-Archives-Hash: c43d11f4fed9deb0f755c914a75fee64 On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete > > your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > > > > > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause > > it is masked. > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many > > othe rprograms and it is masked. > > Don't mask it. Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat > alongside it so packages won't break. I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause breakage. Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have to be rebuilt or worse - recoded. Surely, surely not? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com