Apparently, though unproven, at 18:53 on Friday 10 September 2010, Hilco Wijbenga did opine thusly:
> Hi all, > > This morning I got > > centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > <snip/> > [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE="semantic-desktop > (-aqua) -debug -doc -examples (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)" 0 kB > [1=>0] > <snip/> > > Total: 9 packages (7 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 1 reinstall), Size of > downloads: 10,550 kB > Portage tree and overlays: > [0] /usr/portage > [1] /var/lib/layman/kde > > I decided that I did not want to go back to 4.5.1 so I added > > =kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 > > to /etc/portage/package.mask. > > To my utmost surprise, I got the exact same result as before when > running the above emerge command again. I tried it with one of the > other upgrades mentioned and package.mask had the expected result. > > So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect > for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? Do you have the same entry in package.unmask? unmask supercedes mask -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com