Sometimes a package seems to get the dependencies wrong, and ends up having a dependency on a masked package. When this happens, "emerge -p world" breaks, and the only way to fix it seems to be to add the masked packages into package.keywords. e.g.: sam@fenris ~ $ emerge -p world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!! Problem resolving dependencies for x11-wm/fvwm !!! Depgraph creation failed. It would be nice if, instead of failing to list anything, the offending packages were removed from the list (and an error given). I don't have any keywords defined against the fvwm package, so it's not a case of running unstable packages, but I'm now being 'forced' to mark some packages as unstable just to get a list of what needs upgrading. emerge --info output: Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0-r1 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://212.219.56.152/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://194.117.143.72 ftp://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ http://212.219.56.142/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://wotan.glendale/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac aalib alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bootstrap bzip2 cdparanoia cli crypt cups curl dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gif gimpprint glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg junit kde lcms ldap lua lzw lzw-tiff mad mapeditor mjpeg mng motif mozcalendar mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nntp nsplugin ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl subversion svg tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis wmf xcomposite xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS
emerge --sync
That's not the point. emerge shouldn't break because of a mistake in one package. It should still be able to show dependencies for unrelated packages.
(In reply to comment #2) > That's not the point. emerge shouldn't break because of a mistake in one > package. It should still be able to show dependencies for unrelated packages. Feel free to submit a patch that finds "unrelated" packages. Emerge doesn't break, emerge does the correct thing. Guessing is not a good way to produce dependencies...
