On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:04:20 +0200, b.n. wrote:

> > This is masked in a profile from the desktop-effects overlay. It's
> > nothing to do with the official portage tree, but a third-party
> > overlay breaking things for you.  

> Now, what should I do? Ask to the desktop-effects guys?

Seems a reasonable question.

> And *why* does 
> an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal?

Because masking is global, the sum of all the package.mask files is
applied to the system as a whole.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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