Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Mike Williams 
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
 Ok, Its the only ebuild available 
 and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud
 this circular masking problem.

It's not a circular masking problem, mesa is package.mask'd, as in 
proper-unstable-breaks-the-tree-broken masked.

 Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me.

You could add media-libs/mesa to /etc/portage/package.unmask, but that will 
lead you into the (also package.mask'd) modularized X.
Modularized X is obviously not ready for unstable, and the version of mesa in 
the tree depends on that modularized version to work.

I don't think you are going to get mesa installed without a fair bit of 
trouble.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg 
Harry Putnam wrote:
 I need Mesa libs onboard  (its not mandatory ) so looking at
 partage for mesa libs I find:
  media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
   Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1
   Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

If you have xorg-6.8.2 installed, then you already have Mesa on 
board:

  equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa

Benno
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