Thanks for the good link
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 um 00:52 Uhr
> Von: "Neil Bothwick" <n...@digimed.co.uk>
> An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued
>
> 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.
>
