[gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? I would not expect portage to want to do this because: 1. opencv-2.4.8 is unstable (and I run a stable system) 2. opencv-2.4.5 is masked Thank you, Chris = jane ~ # grep opencv

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/03/2014 01:05, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? It's not doing that. You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to have a version that's in the tree. The only stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to have a version that's in the tree. The only stable version is 2.4.5 but you have masked that in package.mask Hi Alan, I attempted to mask only

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/03/2014 01:48, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to have a version that's in the tree. The only stable version is 2.4.5 but you have masked that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You did post emerge output using -t and it shows up at the top level which is a bit odd, it implies portage wants to update opencv anyway, not as a result of it being a dep. I agree it's odd and I agree it appears