After the latest emerge-sync portage ends up in an illegal state, and I'm not sure how to proceed. Error message follows, but first a few notes: 1) I have and occasionally use media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8 which is not masked. 2) I generally run stable. 3) I had, but unmerged kicker-applets, but that did not help 4) I had, but unmerged, media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15, but that did not help either. 5) I would change to an alternative to mplayer if it would help and I knew what it was.
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-sound/xmms" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r16 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) # Diego Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Oct 2006) # Pending removal 23 November for multiple bugs # Use anything but this, like media-sound/audacious # media-sound/amarok media-sound/mpd media-sound/rhythmbox # media-sound/muine media-sound/banshee - media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r14 (masked by: package.mask) - media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15 (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-video/mplayer !!! Depgraph creation failed. treat portage # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
