Please make emerge display which package forces the keyword change it complains about. For example, after the last emerge --sync I got the following output: # emerge -puvD @world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] media-libs/freetype-2.5.3-r1:2 [2.4.11:2] USE="X adobe-cff%* bzip2 infinality png%* -auto-hinter -bindist -debug -doc -fontforge (-harfbuzz) -static-libs -utils" ABI_X86="(64%*) -32% (-x32)" 1,825 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 1,825 kB The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20130729[truetype] # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) =media-libs/freetype-2.5.3-r1 ~amd64 * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. It took me a very long time to figure out that the harfbuzz package changed it dependency from media-libs/freetype:2=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] to >=media-libs/freetype-2.5.0.1:2=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] (without changing its version number), which forced the freetype update. Having harfbuzz listed instead of mplayer would have been a great help. Reproducible: Always
As an aside, the reason for the harfbuzz change is this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/91615
I have seen this kind of thing come up a lot, I think there is a bug in portage where sometimes it gives a bogus reason for the unmask. Here's another random example: The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by x11-apps/xcursorgen-1.0.5 # required by x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r2 # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) =media-libs/libpng-1.6.15 ~amd64 # required by www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1 # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) =dev-libs/nspr-4.10.7-r1 ~amd64 xcursorgen here has an unversioned dep on libpng but it gets the blame... something else in the depgraph does need unstable libpng, most likely firefox. The above is actually from another #gentoo user's box, I test "emerge -pv =firefox-34*" on my stable box and I get similar bogus output from autounmask, mine blames php: The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by media-libs/mesa-10.3.4 # required by www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1 # required by =firefox-34* (argument) =x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.58 ~amd64 # required by www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1 # required by =firefox-34* (argument) =dev-libs/nspr-4.10.7-r1 ~amd64 # required by www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1 # required by =firefox-34* (argument) =dev-libs/nss-3.17.3 ~amd64 # required by dev-lang/php-5.5.18 # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) =media-libs/libpng-1.6.15 ~amd64 # required by www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1 # required by =firefox-34* (argument) =media-libs/mesa-10.3.4 ~amd64 # required by =firefox-34* (argument) =www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1 ~amd64
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 419381 ***
