I live in Canada, and want to get rid of alerts on a smartphone. Our CRTC (analog to US FCC) has decreed that *ALL* alerts are sent out at the highest level. That includes everything from incoming-nuclear-missiles to missing-kid-500-km-away-at-2:00-AM-in-the-morning. Americans roaming on a Canadian network would see every alert as a "Presidential Alert". Because Canada was late to the alert game (April 2018), 3G was exempted from the alerts because it's considered "legacy". I've forced my phone to 3G. But 3G will eventually shut down, so I need to find some way to get rid of the alerts altogether.
I got to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Android/adb and the instructions are relatively simple. Install adb and then... pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver But I ran into a problem... [x8940][root][~] emerge --ask dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager-24.4.1-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/arch/amd64/no-multilib/package.mask: # AMD64 Team <am...@gentoo.org> # Mask packages that rely on amd64 multilib The part "Mask packages that rely on amd64 multilib" implies that something in the package relies on multilib. This is the first time I've run into something requiring multilib since trying to build WINE, ages ago. And my system is no-multilib. Is there a way around this? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
