Harry Putnam wrote:
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.
Hello Harry,
the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular X
server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff.
You should, however, be fine as long as you do use stable packages.
See also the latest Gentoo Newsletter at
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060130-newsletter.xml which also
contains a migration guide.
Editing files under /usr/portage is Not What You Want To Do (TM). The
changes will be destroyed the next time you do "emerge --sync". Rather
go to /etc/portage and create package.mask/.use/.keywords...
Hope I could be of help.
Johnny
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