On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:57:35 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > ... but I found the problem. There was an old setting in > /etc/portage/package.mask that needed to be cleared out (I had masked >= > some 3.4 version of kioslaves, for reasons that I assume were good at > the time, but I totally forgot that I had ever done it, so I certainly > don't remember why I had done it). Removing that enabled the profile > package.mask to work normally once I removed the bogus and unnecessary > /etc/portage/package.unmask settings.
I had a similar experience last week, because I still had a zillion ">=kde-base/kwhatever-3.5.0_beta1" lines in portage.unmask so it wanted to install all of KDE 3.5.1. Time for a script to check for outdated entries in the /etc/portage files. -- Neil Bothwick Modesty Becomes You. Try It More Often.
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