On Thu, 30 May 2019 00:37:14 +0200, n952...@web.de wrote: > The next section of the response to my attempt to update portage is a > long list of packages, each terminated with a "(masked by: something or > other)". > > What does that tell me. If it's masked, it shouldn't be available, > right? But, I've got it: > > - virtual/perl-parent-0.234.0-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > > ls virtual/perl-parent/perl-parent-0.234.0-r1.ebuild > virtual/perl-parent/perl-parent-0.234.0-r1.ebuild > > Can I get rid of it? Is perl-parent always masked?
grep perl-parent -r /etc/portage will tell you whether one of your config files is masking it. Since you have already admitted not updating config files for quite a while, I would tackle that task first, it may remove some of your other problems. You should read up on this in the Handbook https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/Tools -- Neil Bothwick Guns don't kill people--it's those little pieces of lead.
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