Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade Alsa.

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I use the -D to keep dependencies updated.  I'd use the -U if it worked. 
 However, even with the -u there should be a way to tell portage to not 
try and downgrade it since Alsa-libs is installed.

I've looked at other posts and tried things they've mentioned like 
making sure I do the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS emerge packagename or 
>=media-libs/package name and I've tried package.unmask which I thought 
was supposed to do tell portage to treat this as if it's unmasked and 
solve the problem

So my question remains - a) can I tell portage to realize that the alsa 
stuff I have installed is okay - is it possible and b) how do I get -U 
to work also.

Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 21:39, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

I am running 1.0.x versions of alsa drivers, libs, utils, and tools.
I did the merge with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86 emerge packagename.
However, everytime I do an emerge -uD world -p portage want's to
downgrade the alsa libs as shown here
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] media-sound/alsaplayer-0.99.75-r1 [0.99.76]


Read `man emerge` Ernie :-).  I rarely use the -D option but to keep the 
few ~x86 packages I regularly use `emerge world -Uuvpl`

Peter  
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