On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:

First off, I get the same behaviour this end. kwrite borks out on 
emerge.log which is about 8M. On a machine with 2G ram this should not 
happen. It does the same thing as a kpart in konqueror

> Well, I'm trying to mask this so it will not upgrade when I do
> updates. I must be missing something here.  When I did the pretend
> downgrade it pulled kdelibs down one version too.  So I want to make
> it so that kdelibs and kate will stay at 3.5.5 versions.  This is
> what I added to
>
> package.mask:
> > =kde-base/kate
> > -3.5.6 
> > =kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.6-r2

That will mask those versions, and only those versions. The next upgrade 
of either will be emerged. Is this what you want?

> That way if there is a new release it will upgrade and hopefully it
> will
>
> be fixed.  However, this is what happens when I check for updates:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -uvDp world
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating world dependencies \
> > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~kde-base/kate-3.5.6" have been
> > masked.
> > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
> > your request:
> > - kde-base/kate-3.5.6 (masked by: package.mask)
> >
> > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> > page or
> > refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-meta-3.5.6" [ebuild])

See this line above? It says that kdebase-meta-3.5.6 requires kate-3.5.6 
but that can't be fulfilled because you masked it.

I see two viable options:

1. Put up with it and use vi instead (this is the recommended one...)
2. Make your own local copy of kdebase-meta-3.5.6.ebuild and put it in 
your overlay. Modify the ebuild the use any kdelibs and kate > 3.5.5, 
this should satisfy the dependedcies.

The other option is to downgrade all of kde to 3.5.5 but that's just 
overkill :-)


alan



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