70261 – reference page about masked package should be changed

Bug 70261 - reference page about masked package should be changed

Summary: reference page about masked package should be changed

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Blocks:	108082
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Reported:	2004-11-06 05:58 UTC by YiDa Chiang (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-10-16 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description YiDa Chiang (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-06 05:58:50 UTC

when there is some dependency is masked
emerge shows messages like this

<%
Calculating world dependencies                              ..
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r2 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
# <spyderous@gentoo.org (12 Oct 2004)
# work in progress

- x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
%>

'section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.'
shuld be change to 'section 2.1 "A Portage Introduction"'?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Mauricio L. Pilla (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-19 06:20:41 UTC

I agree, and I think that inside that document, it could be linked to:

1.d. When Portage is Complaining...

... Masked Packages.

Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-16 07:07:06 UTC

Fixed in 2.0.53.