Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

Jonathan Chocron wrote:

>Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit :
>  
>
>>I get the following error:
>>
>>root@Merlin:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world
>>
>>These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
>>
>>Calculating world dependencies -
>>!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-misc/neon-0.25.3" have been
>>masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
>>your request: - net-misc/neon-0.25.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>>- net-misc/neon-0.25.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>>
>>For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
>>refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
>>!!!    (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.1" [ebuild])
>>
>>!!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/unison
>>!!! Depgraph creation failed.
>>
>>
>>Curiously, gnome-vfs isn't installed on my system.  (I don't even use
>>gnome.) Should I simply unmask neon or is there a better way to handle this
>>error?
>>    
>>
>
>One of your package must depend on gnome-vfs, and tries to pull it when you 
>emerge -Dup world (maybe it's just the upgrade that depends on it, most 
>probably because of a new useflag).
>
>You could just unmask neon, but IMHO, gnome-vfs and neon would be installed on 
>your system during the upgrade process, and I don not think that's something 
>you want.
>
>Try a qdepends -Q gnome-vfs to figure out what package is pulling it, and 
>fiddle the useflags accordingly.
>
>BTW, what version of portage are you using ?
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Jonathan
>
>
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>


You could add the -t option to see what is bringing it in too.  I'm bad
to do this:

emerge -uvtp world and then see what is happening and what pulls in what
including USE flags.  Can add the -D option if needed.

Dale
:-)
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