On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 09:32:24 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 9:12 AM John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 08:26:15 -0400, > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > > > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>] > > > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:05:52 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > > > > Hi. I am in a situation where portage wants to install a package > > > > which I have masked. Its wants to do this > > > > [ebuild U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo] > > > > but I want to keep the old one. Why is this happening and how can I > > > > preventthe install of the newer gtk+ which breaks some accessibility > > > > features? > > > > > > It's difficult to say without seeing the portage output but it is > > > probably a package that needs the newer version. Add -t to the emerge > > > command to see what requires the later GTK+, you'll probably need to mask > > > that too. > > > > OK, I thought it would just either refuse or tell me something, but I > > will do that and see what I see. Thanks. > > > > It is already doing both. > > It is refusing to install the masked package, which is why it is > aborting, and probably suggesting that you unmask it. Likewise the > big hash tag in the output is noting that is masked currently. > > The problem is that you're probably also telling portage something > contradictory, like installing some package that requires the newer > version of gtk+ (probably from your world set). So, it isn't doing > that either, and is giving you a bunch of output. > > Impossible to guess what the issue is without the full output, but as > suggested sticking --tree and --verbose in there would help. That > will show the dependency relationships, and also USE flags which might > be triggering them. > > If you have a package masked and nothing else is trying to pull it in, > then portage will more quietly ignore it. It is calling the situation > to your attention because one way or another it won't be doing > something you currently want it to (keeping some other package > up-to-date, but also not installing this version of gtk+).
Problem is, that it is NOT aborting, if it were it would tell me which package ispulling in the gtk+ package. If I can't figure this out, I will post the full output here. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com