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Bug 369985 - portage-2.2.0_alpha37 does not display why a package is masked
Summary: portage-2.2.0_alpha37 does not display why a package is masked
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Blocks: 358927
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Reported: 2011-06-04 01:17 UTC by Alec Moskvin
Modified: 2011-06-06 13:02 UTC (History)
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Description Alec Moskvin 2011-06-04 01:17:38 UTC 
When trying to emerge a masked package, portage used to display the file where the package was masked as well as a the comment above it describing why it was masked. This was convenient.

The recent versions of portage no longer do this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a package to package.mask
2. Try to emerge it

Actual Results:  
# emerge -p gtk+:3

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  NS   #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.10 [2.24.4] USE="cups vim-syntax (-aqua) -debug -doc -examples -introspection -test -xinerama" 

The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by gtk+:3 (argument)
>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.10
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2011-06-04 02:05:28 UTC 
That's true, we should display the mask comments there. Until this is fixed, note that you can use --autounmask=n to see the mask comments. Also, we have an unreleased fix which makes emerge note that the --autounmask=n option is available (from bug 369917).
Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2011-06-06 13:02:58 UTC 
This is fixed in 2.1.10 and 2.2.0_alpha38.