Why does 'emerge sync' _highly_ recommend update portage now when it is masked?
>>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files. fooll portage # emerge portage Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "portage" have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. fooll portage # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-ppc-r2 ppc GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/"; CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="oss dvd xv libwww jpeg nls mitshm gif qt png truetype ppc cups foomaticdb gnome-libs gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline bonobo guile sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib gtk motif opengl mozilla cdr X gtk2 gnome doc spell pda alsa oggvorbis -kde" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="ccache" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
