On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: > > > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been > > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to > > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > > > > > > > > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause > > > it is masked. > > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many > > > othe rprograms and it is masked. > > > > Don't mask it. Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat > > alongside it so packages won't break. > > I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause > breakage. > > Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have > to be rebuilt or worse - recoded. > Surely, surely not?
/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0 hilarity insued. Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with jpeg-7. It was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some breakage because until revdep rebuilt all the packages affected, everything using jpegs (and that is... a lot) didn't work ;)
