On Saturday 05 November 2005 04:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:44:30AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Nobody else has shown a real example, why should I? > > ... > > I am focusing on what it could do. I stated all the options in my > > previous email. > > ... > > To restate: How often is it there is exactly one masked version > > available? What to do when there are two? > > How old are you? You sound like some crotchety old fart on a rocking > chair on his porch.
26; almost 27. > Good god. Probably once or twice a month I read about some program > that sounds interesting, run emerge -p on my amd64, it complains that > some dependency is masked, I edit /etc/portage/packages.keywords, > emerge -p again, get another complaint about some other top level > dependency, rinse, lather, repeat, until I have a half dozen additions > or give up in disgust. If you have never had this happen, then I feel > sorry for you for being so unadventurous. I run ~amd64 but always run whatever the latest packaged KDE is available. Unmasking all of KDE would fit in your category I guess, but I think the discussion with TGL tied with package.unmask would solve that. The only other times I run into masked packages are those that are missing an amd64 keyword. > And the only way I can provide a real world example is wait til it > comes around again on the gitar, to quote Arlo, and I am not going to > waste my time trying to remember to come back to this dicsussion then, > it will be quite cold in its grave, obviously where you want it to go. I don't really want a real world example. You seemed to want one. > I swear you have got to be just about the most negative pessimistic > whining poster on this list. Heh. This made me laugh. If "negative" means that I try to be pro-active by searching for problems, "pessimistic" means that I do find a lot of problems, and "whining" means that I keep going back to points that haven't been addressed, then why sure I am! ;) -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
