Since the fix for bug 612960, the behavior for emerge --usepkg has changed for cases where an atom can only be satisfied by a binary package that would be masked by the --use-ebuild-visiblity option. For example, a command like this used to succeed for a package where a binary package was available but the corresponding ebuild was not longer available: # emerge --usepkg =app-misc/foo-3 [binary U ] app-misc/foo-3 Since commit e309323f156528a8a79a1f755e1326e8880346b7, it fails as follows: # emerge --usepkg =app-misc/foo-3 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=app-misc/foo-3" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-misc/foo-3::test_repo (masked by: )
Patch posted for review: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/6959716d3572bad50444224c9a6fa212 https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/144
This is in the master branch: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=82bfd91325b052a4c9250a04939641c15b3d2a20
