In my opinion, this message is just silly and hard to read. Can it as least say: "masked by: missing dependencies" ? %% emerge --version Portage 2.2.00.13878-prefix (prefix/linux/amd64, gcc-4.4.1, unavailable, 2.6.9-55.ELsmp x86_64) !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: net-im/pidgin:0 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-libs/farsight2-0.0.14" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-libs/farsight2-0.0.14 (masked by: ) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "net-im/pidgin-2.6.1" [ebuild]) !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: net-libs/farsight2:0 emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.13". (dependency required by "net-libs/farsight2-0.0.14" [ebuild])
This is fixed in svn r14155.
(In reply to comment #1) > This is fixed in svn r14155. Via gitweb: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=e22b0c6d60345ada11c7c3e1e66e5f76f30f2197 This was released in 2.1.7.
