Rafael Fernández López schreef: >> Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package >> (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in >> package retrieval. > > > Well, give realplayer a try, and see if it is installed in any way: > > # equery list -p realplayer > > You'll see in a list if any version is installed. > > >> My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package >> as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a >> while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage >> not to emerge the package. > > > Just edit /etc/portage/package.mask (as root) and add this line: > > media-video/realplayer > > Save the changes and that's it. >
Great idea, Rafael, but that may break other updates, if any of them (like xmms, mplayer, xine, etc) use the "real" USE flag.... which is probably what's dragging in realplayer in the first place. As you later suggested, using the --verbose option is /always/ wise when doing an emerge -uD world (myself, I use emerge -uaDtv world), in order to get an idea of what USE flags are being enabled (or not), so that you have the opportunity to make changes and keep unwanted packages from being emerged as optional dependencies (or make sure that wanted packages are emerged as optional dependencies). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
