From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:26:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181006132615.5e469506@phoucgh.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3woqvpc6n.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com>
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:05:52 -0400, John Covici wrote:
> Hi. I am in a situation where portage wants to install a package
> which I have masked. Its wants to do this
> [ebuild U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo]
> but I want to keep the old one. Why is this happening and how can I
> preventthe install of the newer gtk+ which breaks some accessibility
> features?
It's difficult to say without seeing the portage output but it is
probably a package that needs the newer version. Add -t to the emerge
command to see what requires the later GTK+, you'll probably need to mask
that too.
--
Neil Bothwick
I don't know what makes you tick but I wish it was a time bomb.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-06 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-06 11:05 [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package John Covici
2018-10-06 12:26 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2018-10-06 13:12 ` John Covici
2018-10-06 13:32 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-06 14:04 ` John Covici
2018-10-06 18:04 ` John Covici
2018-10-06 18:55 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-06 20:29 ` John Covici
2018-10-06 21:34 ` Jack
2018-10-07 0:39 ` Paul Colquhoun
2018-10-07 4:21 ` John Covici
2018-10-06 23:11 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-07 0:43 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-07 4:19 ` John Covici
2018-10-06 19:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2018-10-06 22:51 ` John Covici
2018-10-06 23:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-10-07 6:48 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-10-07 8:44 ` John Covici
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