From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA114138B43 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 20:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEC93E0E6F; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 20:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail144c7.megamailservers.com (mail129c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEB58E0E64 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 20:32:34 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin.sys-concept.com Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail144c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s16KWWVc005611 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:32:33 -0500 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33E9F200651; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:33:04 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:33:04 -0700 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] system is trying to install mask package Message-ID: <20140206203304.GL4127@syscon7.ed.shawcable.net> 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; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=KZvr72oD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=LcaDllckn3IA:10 a=K7b9IASmvpEA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=2wRAYNU50AgA:10 a=lKK4OoMunE61JXm-9lcA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020207.52F3F161.0189,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-Archives-Salt: 980379a2-1eec-4e45-80c3-abb0071b6787 X-Archives-Hash: f5f3980582e109f39ca453986c2658ac In /etc/portage/package.mask I have masked: =x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 but emerge is trying to install it, why? emerge -avq xorg-server * Last emerge --sync was 45d 3h 42m 30s ago. [ebuild r UD] x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 [1.14.99.904] USE="ipv6 nptl suid udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -tslib -xnest -xvfb" The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ (argument) # /etc/portage/package.mask: =x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 What is: # required by @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ (argument) -- Joseph