Thank you for the advice, you've both been very helpful! I'll take a look at it this evening.
James On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 10:37 AM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:06:36 +0100, James Stevenson wrote: > > > I received a notification that one of my packages had been masked by my > > profile. Am I correct in thinking that this issue will resolve itself in > > 30 days? > > > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > > - x11-proto/xextproto-7.3.0-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > > # Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> (10 Jun 2018) > > # Packages combined into x11-base/xorg-proto. > > #All reverse deps transitioned. > > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #656250 > > You shouldn't have any of these packages installed now, they should have > been depcleaned after xorg-proto was installed. If depclean doesn't > remove them, they still be required by a package in an overlay, that > happened to me. > > emerge -cpv packagename > > should tell you why each package is still there. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > WinErr 014: Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of. >
