Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 29 June 2008, b.n. wrote: By the way: I find the fact emerge -pv just fails in those cases extremly annoying. Shoudn't it report the error, skip offending packages but let me see what can be happily merged independently of that? Seems a reasonable question, but will be almost

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread brullo nulla
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 June 2008, b.n. wrote: By the way: I find the fact emerge -pv just fails in those cases extremly annoying. Shoudn't it report the error, skip offending packages but let me see what can be happily merged

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 June 2008, brullo nulla wrote: Seems a reasonable question, but will be almost impossible to implement, as how would you define a package that can be happily merged independently of a blocking package? portage is software, it isn't intelligent so it doesn't know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 30 June 2008, brullo nulla wrote: The block will in many cases affect only a branch of the dependency tree. For example, in this case it is all blocked because glibmm wants a masked glib. Portage knows that glibmm wants the masked glib, so it knows that

[gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Hi, It is probably a dumb blunder of mine, but it seems that there is something weird with glib on my world file. emerge -pv world fails with: --- !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-libs/glib-2.16 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:39:21 +0200, b.n. wrote: emerge -pv world fails with: --- !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-libs/glib-2.16 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask)

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-libs/glib-2.16 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: # #

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick ha scritto: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-libs/glib-2.16 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by:

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0200, b.n. wrote: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (9 February 2008) # glib-2.15 breaks some packages - dev-libs/glib-2.16.2 (masked by: package.mask,

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0200, b.n. wrote: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (9 February 2008) # glib-2.15 breaks some packages - dev-libs/glib-2.16.2 (masked

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:04:20 +0200, b.n. wrote: This is masked in a profile from the desktop-effects overlay. It's nothing to do with the official portage tree, but a third-party overlay breaking things for you. Now, what should I do? Ask to the desktop-effects guys? Seems a reasonable

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: And *why* does an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal? Because masking is global, the sum of all the package.mask files is applied to the system as a whole. Yes, I know. What I wondered, is if this is normal policy. It seems that an