On 17 Oct, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:46:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> E.g. here is the complete output of >> emerge --tree --update --deep --pretend world >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >> >> Calculating dependencies ... done! >> >> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy >> ">=app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.3.0" have been masked. !!! One of >> the following masked packages is required to complete your request: >> - app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.6.0-r1 (masked by: package.mask) >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >> # Gilles Dartiguelongue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (24 Jan 2008) >> # add masked gnome-system-tools-2.20 and dependencies >> # for testing purpose >> >> - app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.4.2 (masked by: package.mask) >> - app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask) >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >> # Gilles Dartiguelongue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (12 Apr 2008) >> # Masking gnome-system-tools because it is broken, >> # to help fix it, see bug #214265 >> > > emerge normally tells you the package that requires the masked > dependency. Does adding --verbose give any more detail? > > Do you have anything in /etc/portage/package.unmask that may affect this? > If not, you have found a bug in the tree, because non-masked packages > shouldn't depend on masked ones. > >
Thanks, --verbose did the trick. There was gnome-system-tools installed. After unmerging it, this problem was solved. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
