app-portage/esearch-0.7.1 explicitly requires python compiled with
readline. Apple doesn't do this for us, hence portage wants to pull
python for users that use esearch. Unfortunately for us esearch has
been marked unstable when it was created, so I decided to mask it in the
macos profile.
A user in IRC encountered this problem when updating world using
~ppc-macos. I expect all upcoming versions of esearch to require
readline in esearch, hence I checked this patch in:
Index: package.mask
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RCS file:
/var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-darwin/macos/package.mask,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 package.mask
--- package.mask 4 May 2005 00:05:33 -0000 1.1
+++ package.mask 27 Aug 2005 09:34:33 -0000
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
# this version of nano can't save files on Mac OS X - see bug 89040
=app-editors/nano-1.3.4
+
+# the newest esearch requires python with readline, which is not what
+# OSX supplies by default
+>=app-portage/esearch-0.7.1
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo for Mac OS X
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