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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -aDvu world stopped by media-sound/xmms
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On 10/24/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> After the latest emerge-sync portage ends up in an illegal state, and
> I'm not sure how to
> proceed.  Error message follows, but first a few notes:
> 1)  I have and occasionally use media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8 which is
> not masked.
> 2)  I generally run stable.
> 3)  I had, but unmerged kicker-applets, but that did not help
> 4)  I had, but unmerged, media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15, but that did not
> help either.

Add --newuse to include and rebuild packages that used to have an xmms
USE flag (which is now masked).

> 5)  I would change to an alternative to mplayer if it would help and I
> knew what it was.

# Use anything but this, like media-sound/audacious
# media-sound/amarok media-sound/mpd media-sound/rhythmbox
# media-sound/muine media-sound/banshee

See also the (very) recent thread on this topic.

-Richard
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