I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted
because the package I was after was actually installed already.
I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old
anyway.
I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage
for mesa libs I find:
media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 8,534 kB
Homepage: http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
Description: OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux
License: LGPL-2
Ok, so far so good. I'm running iwth ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf
so this should work.. I'm thinking.... but it doesn't
root # emerge -vp media-libs/mesa
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/mesa" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
your request:
- media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
# Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07 Aug 2005)
# Modularized X, upstream release candidates
And the advice:
For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
Ok, Its the only ebuild available ....
and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud
this circular masking problem.
Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me.
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