Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Apparently, though unproven, at 05:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Allan 
> Gottlieb did opine thusly:
>
>> Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a
>> downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated
>> a downgrade of xinit to 1.2.1.
>> 
>> Thus my emerges now generate msgs that updates to xorg-server and xinit
>> are being skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies.
>> Other than this, the emerges perform normally and the system runs well.
>> 
>> I could mask the newer versions of xorg-server and xinit and possibly
>> prevent the emerge messages, but I am leaning toward leaving it as it is.
>> This way when mesa is updated (to a hopefully fixed version) everything
>> should update automatically.
>> 
>> Does that sound reasonable.
>
> Yes, that will work fine. You'll just have to tolerate those messages in the 
> interim, but you know they are there and why. Nothing will break because of 
> it.

Thanks.
allan