cplay won't emerge - strange dependencies fault

levez

Hi,
When I try and emerge cplay (I've read good stuff about it here on the forum), I get the following:

Brandy · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject:

Hi levez.

In Gentoo packages are masked if they are considered unstable or haven't been tested sufficiently. By default portage won't let us emerge unstable packages, which explains why you are getting that message.

If you really want to install cplay you still can, but you need to explicitly tell portage that it's ok to install it:

levez · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:03 pm Post subject: Gracias

Ah, many thanks. I was aware that packages could be masked, but hadn't really put any thought into why. I had assumed that the message I was recieving about cplay was syptomatic of some bug in the ebuild, or a problem in my system elsewhere.

Of course, I really should have RTFM first, I know

Thanks again, I'll go and give that page a read.
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