An avid reader of ciaranm’s blog<\/a>, would know that with paludis<\/a> you can use –dl-override-masks<\/a> to see all the packages you need to unmask to install something.<\/p>\n Although Gimme uses the paludis ruby bindings<\/a> to generate the dep list for what you’d like to install. Then it appends appropriate dependency specs to your Have a look at If (when) you find a bug, just ping me on #paludis on Freenode<\/a> with a link to your patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All your masked and ~ packages too An avid reader of ciaranm’s blog, would know that with paludis you can use –dl-override-masks to see all the packages you need to unmask to install something. Although –dl-override-masks is great improvement over portage’s behaviour, if you want to try the latest version of kde you still have … Continue reading Give me all your loving …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/rbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}--dl-override-masks<\/code> is great improvement over portage’s behaviour, if you want to try the latest version of kde you still have 15 entries to place into keywords.conf<\/code> , and a few months ago you would have the same number of entries to put in package_unmask.conf<\/code>. Being so exceedingly lazy that Mr Kipling’s<\/a> cakes are only middlin’ good by comparison, I wrote a script to save me from this chore, gimme.rb<\/a>.<\/p>\nkeywords.conf<\/code>, package_unmask.conf<\/code> and licenses.conf<\/code> files. Calling gimme.rb \"=kde-base\/kde-3.5.6\"<\/code> will put a small header into your keywords.conf<\/code> and an entry for ~kde-base\/kde-3.5.6::gentoo ~arch<\/code> and the 14 other packages that you need to unmask to install kde.<\/p>\n--help<\/code> for all the options, the ones which are most useful are probably --pretend<\/code>, which is fairly self explanatory, and --match-type<\/code>, which will change the type of dep spec gimme uses to unmask your package.<\/p>\n