Hi all, Sorry about the obscure subject line, but I wasn't sure how to concisely and correctly describe the problem in only a few words.
I tried installing xorg 7.0, but of course, as it is masked, it didn't work. Since I'm a college student in the midst of finals, having a working graphical desktop is mission critical right now, and I don't have the time to tinker with it to get it to work. So, I reinstalled 6.8.2-r6. I did my best to remove all of the modular dependencies that 7.0 installed (this was definantly the hardest part). Now, however, whenever I try to emerge -Du world, I get warnings that various packages want to reinstall some of the dependencies from the 7.0 tree, but can't because they're masked. Unfortunately, emerge isn't very verbose, even with the -v option, and only returns one blocker at a time (instead of all of them). Here is it's output as a sample of the problem: --------------------- !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-libs/libX11" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-libs/libX11-1.0.0-r2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-plugins/xmms-oss !!! Depgraph creation failed. ---------------------- Why is it that these various packages haven't switched their dependecies back to the 6.8.2-r6 virtual for x11-xorg? Why are they looking for dependencies from the 7.0 tree, still? Is it because I still have some rogue 7.0 packages installed on this computer? And of course, the mega-money question, how do I fix the problem? What other information do you need to aid in diagnosing the problem? Thanks in advance for all of your help! Kris Kerwin -- [email protected] mailing list
