Summary: | erroneous error from emerge | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Voltron Rex <voltron.rex> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2004.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Voltron Rex
2004-03-26 01:16:44 UTC
Why do you think it's not working correctly? It says that the package is masked by package.mask In fact, that version of gst-plugins is in package.mask as well. emerging things by pointing directly at the ebuild file is not the recommended method. You should just specify the category/package that you want. So you would do: emerge media-libs/gst-plugins Hi I understand that it's extra-masked and that I should avoid it; however that's not possible in my situation. What I see as not working properly is that emerge should give an error that implies --nodeps should be used to overcome the problem. The error given is confusing, in my opinion, as is the workaround. To me, a 'dependency' means 'something else must be installed.' But portage apppears to be saying, "X must be installed in order to install X" gst-plugins-0.8.0-r1.ebuild depends itself in gst-plugins eclass. so the error message is correct. |