[gentoo-user] package masking question

2006-06-27 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask. Let me give todays example. Running ~x86. gimp-2.3.9 is installed. gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2* So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1. What would be nice is to be able to mask:

Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

2006-06-27 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 6/27/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy,I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask.Let me give todays example.Running ~x86.gimp-2.3.9 is installed.gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2* So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.What would be

Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

2006-06-27 Thread Roy Wright
Hani Duwaik wrote: Have you tried the suggestion outlined at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3 Yes, that is just normal package masking. Maybe I should elaborate. I like to update daily. When the occasional blocker or cyclic dependency hit, I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

2006-06-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roy Wright wrote: Where I find myself failing with the package.mask approach is remembering some time in the future to go back and remove these temporary masks. If you keep the temporary masks at the top of package.mask, you could make a wrapper for emerge that after every --sync prints say

Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

2006-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:49:37 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: If you keep the temporary masks at the top of package.mask, you could make a wrapper for emerge that after every --sync prints say the top five lines of /etc/portage/package.mask, to remind you. Or add comments and grep for ^# If

Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

2006-06-27 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
On 6/27/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask. Let me give todays example. Running ~x86. gimp-2.3.9 is installed. gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2* So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.