Summary: | misleading portage output with ebuilds which weren't but are now masked by license | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Dominik D. Geyer <dominik.geyer> |
Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | dhp_gentoo, esigra, rbu |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Dominik D. Geyer
2009-11-08 20:27:14 UTC
the emerge error message is wrong, not a technical bug; but communication problem ... leading users to the wrong path, saying that the problem is due to missing keyword, and incitating the user to unmask, when actually, it seems to be a licensing problem. If all ebuilds that can satisfy one dependency (such as this virtual) are masked, Portage should either display ALL of them in the error output or prefer the ones that have installed atoms and those that are "only" masked by license. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 288083 *** (In reply to comment #2) > If all ebuilds that can satisfy one dependency (such as this virtual) are > masked, Portage should either display ALL of them in the error output or prefer > the ones that have installed atoms and those that are "only" masked by license. That's bug 164457. |