On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:06:41PM -0500, Paul Varner wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > Calculating world dependencies - > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6" have been > > masked. > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > > request: > > - sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > > > > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page > > or > > section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. > > !!! (dependency required by "dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r4" [ebuild]) > > > > Am i reading this right? A stable package has an unstable dependency ! > > > > Please let me know if you beleive this is an error in the perl ebuild. > > Rerun emerge --sync and try again. I believe you synced while it was in > the middle of being marked stable. I did an emerge --sync last night, and now all is right in gentooland. >From now on I will wait a few hours after receiving what seems like an unlikely condition to be occuring, and try sync'ing again. Thanks for your help.
[OT] An interesting (scary) read http://www.theregister.com/2005/07/01/bush_net_policy/ John -- The revolution will not be televised. -- [email protected] mailing list
