On Sunday 08 February 2004 05:25 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 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.
>
I know I'll get flamed for this... but in my humble opinion portage has some
serious bugs in it still. Along with your malfunctioning -U switch, I've seen
any number of odd behavours from it. Seeing all the increments in the portage
tree, maybe this will all be fixed one day soon. That aside, I just "emerge
-i " the offending ebuild and I'm never bothered for it again... Untill the
next broken ebuild is tossed into portage, that is......
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