Hi List! I'm having a little problem with package masking that I just can't seem to wrap my head around. See, I emerged the Gaim 2 beta by unmasking it through /etc/portage/package.keywords, and all went fine, until gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3 came along, which requires a ~x86 dbus, which I don't want (for a variety of obvious reasons). So I thought to continue running with gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r2, which is still in portage.
In order to keep `emerge -Duva world' working, I wanted to mask gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3, though, but there's where my problem is. I've added `>net-im/gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3' to /etc/portage/package.mask, but nothing changes. `emerge gaim' still wishes to emerge gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3, and `emerge -Duva world' fails since it cannot build a depgraph including gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3. I've never had any problems with /etc/portage/package.mask in the past -- even now, it's working to mask >=net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.8. Does anyone have any idea why it has no effect on gaim? I thought it might be confused by gaim's version numbers or something, but still it seems to be able to see that gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3 is newer than gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r2, so that can't be it, right? Fredrik Tolf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
