On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:52:30 -0800, Donnie Berkholz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I dont expect stable to work together with unstable all the time. But
> > isnt the whole point of unstable to test packages against stable so
> > they can be unmasked?
> >
> > Anyway, the masked xine-lib works, but it depends on aalib and cacalib
> > for no good reason ignoring my use flag settings.
> >
> > And here is the bug I reported about 1_rc8-r1 (stable):
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78129 - feel free to close it
> > in favor of getting xine-lib-1.0 unmasked if you like.
> 
> If I like? I don't do xine-lib. =) And you have to realize that
> sometimes things need to be done simultaneously -- one change can depend
> on another. ~arch should work with ~arch, arch should work with arch,
> but ~arch with arch is not necessarily guaranteed.

Almost everything in ~arch makes it to arch. Either directly, or
simultaneously with other packages. Which is why I said either get
stable fixed, or close the bug in favor of unmasking xine-lib instead.
I aught to add a message about that on the bug report for the
maintainer.

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