Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:22:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Or are you saying I need to list ever dependance in there too? >> Its a very long list. I got as high as 12 and was still getting that >> message with yet another dependancy. > > You need to list every dependency in there, but first you need to find > out why they have all been masked in package.mask. There is usually a good > reason for hard-masking a package.
The reason has been posted in a few messages in this thread or at least in my initial post; from /usr/portage/package.mask: # Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07 Aug 2005) # Modularized X, upstream release candidates And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the dependancies. root # equery depends x11-apps/xvidtune [ Searching for packages depending on x11-apps/xvidtune... ] No help there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
