12534 – emerge search for installed masked packages

Bug 12534 - emerge search for installed masked packages

Summary: emerge search for installed masked packages

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11739

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-12-21 14:43 UTC by Amit Pansare
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Amit Pansare 2002-12-21 14:43:41 UTC

Wish emerge could search for masked packages that are installed.
Sometimes few things can fail coz of masked packages. If emerge could produces
the list of masked packages installed, it might help in resolving the issues.

Scenario,
I had installed xft which is masked one. While upgrading pangoo and gtk+, Pangoo
1.0.5 got no problems. GTK+-2.0.9 however failed saying that it cannot link to
Pango. failed on "pango_new_context = no"
If emerge could have quickly produced masked packages list, the eye could have
hit masked packages that could affect X11-libs. 

This feature could be a nice add-on in special cases.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-08 15:27:11 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11739 ***