On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:06:36 +0100, James Stevenson wrote:

> I received a notification that one of my packages had been masked by my
> profile. Am I correct in thinking that this issue will resolve itself in
> 30 days?
> 
> !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> - x11-proto/xextproto-7.3.0-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Matt Turner <[email protected]> (10 Jun 2018)
> # Packages combined into x11-base/xorg-proto.
> #All reverse deps transitioned.
> # Removal in 30 days. Bug #656250

You shouldn't have any of these packages installed now, they should have
been depcleaned after xorg-proto was installed. If depclean doesn't
remove them, they still be required by a package in an overlay, that
happened to me.

emerge -cpv packagename

should tell you why each package is still there.


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Neil Bothwick

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