From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KD50Q-0006wO-Dl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:04:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 020DDE0485; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A510EE0485 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.5) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 485BBF24013CDA21 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:04:20 +0200 Message-ID: <486806E4.2070202@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:04:20 +0200 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080507) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why? References: <4867D6D9.5020301@gmail.com> <20080629195143.54e88d8d@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <4867F460.2000504@gmail.com> <20080629223608.410771c4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080629223608.410771c4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e7443fa-2619-4649-8693-a2e637fe2002 X-Archives-Hash: 21b523f67df382ebb450cdd63405b4e1 Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0200, b.n. wrote: > >>>> - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) >>>> /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: >>>> # >>>> # (9 February 2008) >>>> # glib-2.15 breaks some packages >>>> >>>> - dev-libs/glib-2.16.2 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) >>>> - dev-libs/glib-2.16.1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) >>>> >>>> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man >>>> page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. >>>> (dependency required by "dev-cpp/glibmm-2.16.1" [ebuild]) >>> Sync again, glib-2.16.3 is not masked in the profile here. >>> >> Synced and nothing changed. >> >> Where should I look for? I have no package.mask in /etc/portage. > > I've just read the message more carefully and seen the problem, I only > noticed the profiles/package.mask part, meaning it is masked in your > profile, not /etc/portage, and didn't look carefully at the full path. > > This is masked in a profile from the desktop-effects overlay. It's > nothing to do with the official portage tree, but a third-party overlay > breaking things for you. *slaps head with palm* Thanks! How silly was I not reading that. Now, what should I do? Ask to the desktop-effects guys? And *why* does an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal? I'm confused. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list