On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:06:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> For about a week my daily update has complained thus:
> 
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-util/boost-build-1.62*" have
> been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
> complete your request: 
> - dev-util/boost-build-1.62.0-r1::gentoo (masked by: ) 
> 
> (dependency required by "dev-libs/boost-1.62.0-r1::gentoo" [ebuild])
> 
> 
> The ebuild of dev-util/boost-build-1.62.0-r1 includes 'RESTRICT="test"'.
> 
> I have just been waiting for this to be sorted out, but no change yet.
> I can upgrade boost-build by specifying USE=test on the command
> line, but is that a good idea?

This seems to be a fairly regular occurrence with boost. AFAIR I got
round it with

emerge -1a =dev-libs/boost-1.62.0-r1 =dev-util/boost-build-1.62.0-r1

I didn't mess with USE.


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