# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # This file requires >=portage-2.1.1 # New entries go on top. # This file is only for generic masks. For arch-specific masks (i.e. # mask everywhere, unmask on arch/*) use arch/base. # Brian Evans (28 Feb 2018) # Mask client-libs USE to force users to install alternative standard pacakges >=dev-db/mariadb-10.3 client-libs >=dev-db/mysql-5.7 client-libs >=dev-db/percona-server-5.7 client-libs # Andreas Sturmlechner (25 Feb 2018) # Depends on obsolete media-libs/phonon[qt4] dev-qt/designer:4 phonon dev-qt/qtdemo:4 phonon dev-python/PyQt4 phonon dev-python/pyside:0 phonon # Brian Evans (22 Feb 2018) # Depends on vulnerable dev-php/ZendFramework which is masked for removal www-apps/postfixadmin xmlrpc # Andreas Sturmlechner (10 Feb 2018) # Depends on unreleased media-libs/libaom, and 9999 is currently broken media-video/vlc aom # Andreas K. Hüttel (2 Feb 2018) # This feature is not ready yet, see bug 146882 comment 26 sys-libs/glibc compile-locales # Andreas Sturmlechner (13 Jan 2018) # Depends on last-rited sci-visualization/xds-viewer sci-chemistry/xds-bin X # Mart Raudsepp (10 Jan 2018) # Failing tests, with extra deps that aren't keyworded due to that >=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3.24 test # Pacho Ramos (04 Jan 2018) # sys-apps/raidutils is going to be removed (#638634) net-analyzer/nagios-plugin-check_raid i2o # Andrey Utkin (29 Dec 2017) # This flag can be sensibly enabled only on macos. # Can be unmasked in prefix/darwin/macos profiles. Bug #637482 media-video/ffmpeg appkit # Pacho Ramos (28 Dec 2017) # The whole zeitgeist stuck is dead (#629180) gnome-extra/synapse zeitgeist www-client/midori zeitgeist app-editors/gedit-plugins zeitgeist app-misc/bijiben zeitgeist dev-libs/folks zeitgeist media-sound/rhythmbox zeitgeist media-video/totem zeitgeist # Pacho Ramos (27 Dec 2017) # We will remove ptlib, its support was broken anyway (#624578). net-voip/yate h323 # Andreas K. Hüttel (25 Dec 2017) # We need to clean up obsolete packages a bit. Bug 628820. ~app-text/texlive-core-2012 xetex ~app-text/texlive-core-2013 xetex # James Le Cuirot (17 Dec 2017) # Java 9 is not yet fully supported on Gentoo. Having a masked # gentoo-vm flag allows us to provide it without it breaking Gentoo # packages. Those who wish to experiment with it as a fully recognised # Gentoo JVM can unmask the flag. dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin:9 gentoo-vm dev-java/oracle-jre-bin:9 gentoo-vm # Andreas K. Hüttel (04 Nov 2017) # Requires audacious, which is masked. Bug 632513 =media-libs/freeverb3-3.1.2_pre20151102-r1 jack # Andreas Sturmlechner (16 Oct 2017) # USE=qt4 depends on masked dev-qt/qtwebkit:4, bug #620754 sci-physics/root qt4 # Andreas Sturmlechner (16 Oct 2017) # Depends on masked dev-qt/qtwebkit:4, bug #620684 dev-qt/assistant:4 webkit dev-qt/designer:4 webkit dev-qt/qt-meta:4 webkit dev-qt/qtdeclarative:4 webkit dev-qt/qtdemo:4 webkit dev-python/PyQt4 webkit dev-python/pyside:0 webkit # Pawel Hajdan jr (18 Sep 2017) # Ian Stakenvicius (27 Sep 2017) # Depends on >=icu-59, still masked. >=www-client/chromium-62.0.3202.9 system-icu >=www-client/firefox-56.0 system-icu # Andreas K. Huettel (9 Sep 2017) # Potentially destructive. Use it only if you know what you're doing. sys-libs/glibc vanilla # Michael Orlitzky (24 Aug 2017) # This is a security risk if not used carefully, bug 628596. net-analyzer/nrpe command-args # Michał Górny (05 Aug 2017) # media-libs/silgraphite is being treecleaned wrt #594314. (04 Aug 2017) # sys-kernel/openvz-sources is being treecleaned wrt #580516. app-emulation/libvirt openvz # Michał Górny (30 Jul 2017) # The Z3 backend is unstable and causes assertion failures. Mask it # until upstream fixes it properly. sys-devel/clang z3 # Ulrich Müller (26 Jul 2017) # Disable hesiod support due to security vulnerability, bug #626242. app-editors/emacs hesiod app-editors/emacs-vcs hesiod # Brian Evans (21 Jul 2017) # Mask USE flag which has limited keywords for app-crypt/argon2 dev-lang/php argon2 # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (16 Jul 2017) # Causes build to fail with ffmpeg-3, #602786 www-plugins/gnash vaapi # Mike Gilbert (09 Jul 2017) # Matthias Dahl (05 Jul 2017) # Both are not your typical garden-variety Linux programs and are # rather sensitive when it comes to compiler flags, resulting in # black screens, hangs or crashes. The average joe should have no # need or even advantage to set custom compiler flags at all. # Example: https://bugs.gentoo.org/619628 sys-boot/gnu-efi custom-cflags sys-boot/refind custom-cflags # Michał Górny (8 Jul 2017) # The clutter backend is broken with new GTK+3 versions and upstream # haven't been able to fix it so far. Enforcing an old GTK+3 version # is not a good solution long-term, so mask the flag entirely. media-video/parole clutter # Michał Górny (29 Jun 2017) # Upstream switched to CMake and no longer provides option to build # static and shared libs. The flag is preserved not to break USE # depenencies. >=app-arch/snappy-1.1.5 static-libs # Ilya Tumaykin (18 Jun 2017) # Libav is basically unsupported by mpv, see upstream issues 3923, 3925. # Needs patch to even build, subs are broken and not supported anymore. media-video/mpv libav # Maciej Mrozowski (15 Jun 2017) # Mask due to bug #621810 dev-games/simgear gdal games-simulation/flightgear gdal # Michał Górny (05 Jun 2017) # (on behalf of Treecleaner project) # dev-libs/dee is masked for removal, mask flags that requires it. gnome-extra/zeitgeist icu # Michał Górny (05 Jun 2017) # (on behalf of Treecleaner project) # www-apache/mod_python is masked for removal, mask flags that # require it. net-analyzer/check_mk livestatus wato # Matthias Maier (31 May 2017) # mask dependencies on old paraview versions, bug #561084 (29 May 2017) # Does not build sci-libs/linux-gpib php # Michał Górny (20 May 2017) # CUDA support in nvtt does not support GCC 4.5+. media-gfx/nvidia-texture-tools cuda # Michał Górny (15 May 2017) # Mask ruby20-only compatible packages =media-libs/libcaca-0.99_beta19 ruby # Matthias Maier (11 May 2017) # Globally mask pie use flag. Selectively unmask on specific profiles. sys-devel/gcc pie # Mike Gilbert (28 Apr 2017) # Needs sandbox-2.11 (masked) >=www-client/chromium-59 tcmalloc # Michał Górny (18 Mar 2017) # Requires removed old version of media-gfx/graphviz. media-gfx/nip2 graphviz # Matt Turner (04 Mar 2017) # Requires dev-util/cmdtest stabilization, bug 611052 x11-apps/xauth test # Pawel Hajdan jr (02 Mar 2017) # Known build issue with system libvpx: # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611394 >=www-client/chromium-58.0.3026.3 system-libvpx # Michał Górny (17 Feb 2017) # Python 2 package relies on gedit[python] which is py3 only. dev-vcs/rabbitvcs gedit # Mike Gilbert (16 Feb 2017) # Multiple test failures. sys-boot/grub:2 test # Ian Stakenvicius (25 Jan 2017) # rust on mozilla packages is experimental www-client/firefox rust mail-client/thunderbird rust # Lars Wendler (19 Jan 2017) # Masked until system heimdal can finally be used with AD DC net-fs/samba system-heimdal # Magnus Granberg (18 Jan 2017) # Adding the mask so that end users and devlopers are notified of the removal and have some # time to migrate. There is no support for gcj in gcc-7 >=sys-devel/gcc-6.3.0 gcj # Robin H. Johnson (04 Dec 2016) # Additional HAProxy functionality waiting for related stuff to land in the # tree. # bug 541042 - lua 5.3 net-proxy/haproxy lua # bug (none) - 51Degrees net-proxy/haproxy 51degrees # bug (none) - WURFL net-proxy/haproxy wurfl # Pacho Ramos (27 Nov 2016) # Not rely on monodevelop, bug #596656 # dev-dotnet/zeitgeist-sharp is going to be removed, bug #582894 net-irc/hexchat theme-manager # Pacho Ramos (27 Nov 2016) # Avoid the usage of dead net-dialup/capi4k-utils app-emulation/crossover-bin capi # Ettore Di Giacinto (10 Nov 2016) # Dependency has no stable keyword # and as for now we have only stable mate versions mate-base/mate bluetooth # Ulrich Müller (15 Oct 2016) # The --with-cairo option is considered as experimental by upstream # and causes problems with updating the X window, bug #592238 app-editors/emacs cairo app-editors/emacs-vcs cairo # Michał Górny (28 Aug 2016) # lldb fails to build in the current RC, and needs a lot of minor fixes. # It's no longer available in -9999 line, and it won't be in 3.9.0 # either unless somebody steps up to fix it. >=sys-devel/llvm-3.9.0_rc lldb # Brian Evans (22 Aug 2016) # Depends on masked, end-of-life php versions <=dev-libs/ossp-uuid-1.6.2-r4 php # Gilles Dartiguelongue (21 Aug 2016) # Needs a Gstreamer plugin from gst-plugins-bad that is not packaged to date media-plugins/grilo-plugins chromaprint # Pacho Ramos (21 Aug 2016) # x11-libs/libsvg-cairo is being removed, bug #537918 dev-ml/cairo-ocaml svg # Lars Wendler (19 Aug 2016) # gnutls is broken for years >=net-libs/gsoap-2.8.0 gnutls # Michał Górny (05 Jul 2016) # Mask system-clang support as it requires llvm-3.4 that is subject # to security bug cleanup, #585102. dev-util/intel-ocl-sdk system-clang # Matthew Brewer (02 June 2016) # Acked-by: Amy Winston # Currently broken upstream. >=dev-lang/rakudo-2016.05 java # Michał Górny (14 May 2016) # (on behalf of QA team) # sys-devel/gcc[jit]: # - violates strict multilib rules, #569608 # - causes collisions between multiple gcc versions, #583010 # Masking the flag until it is fixed. sys-devel/gcc jit # Mike Frysinger (08 May 2016) # Most targets do not support VTV #547040. sys-devel/gcc vtv # Matthew Brewer (08 May 2016) # Acked-by: Amy Winston # Upstream supports using Clang's address sanitizer, but apparently # invokes it wrong. dev-lang/moarvm asan # Patrice Clement # Merged on behalf of: # Jonathan Scruggs (28 Sep 2017) # Newer versions have a patch to fix the python issues. <=media-libs/openimageio-1.6.13 python # Ian Stakenvicius (28 Apr 2016) # system-cairo support causes lots of crashing in mozilla pkgs # (see bug #556378 and others) www-client/firefox system-cairo mail-client/thunderbird system-cairo >=www-client/seamonkey-2.41 system-cairo # James Le Cuirot (10 Apr 2016) # Slower and less reliable than HotSpot and we don't support Java on # any non-HotSpot platforms. Don't unmask these unless you know what # you're doing. This has upstream's approval. dev-java/icedtea cacao jamvm # Lars Wendler (20 Mar 2016) # Need vulnerable libotr version (see bug #576914). net-im/centerim otr =net-im/climm-0.7.1 otr # James Le Cuirot (14 Mar 2016) # jtds:1.2 needs removing because it depends on Java 6. Unfortunately # we can't stabilise the latest sqldeveloper yet because of Java 8. (27 Nov 2015) # Unsastified dependencies are upsetting repoman. Needs investigation. app-arch/cfv bittorrent # Rick Farina (06 Oct 2015) # forward porting this patch is non-trivial, mask for now >=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.5 wimax # Justin Lecher (22 Sep 2015) # Downloads files during installation # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533876 >=sci-libs/vtk-6.1.0 examples # Fabian Groffen (08 Sep 2015) # GnuTLS support is currently broken/causes hang, bug #559834 # http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3772 (06 Sep 2015) # This is for cgmanager which is linux only. # Unmasked in default/linux/package.use.mask. sys-auth/consolekit cgroups # Manuel Rüger (03 Sep 2015) # Mask USE=ruby for packages that solely rely on the soon to be deprecated # ruby 1.9 # See bug #541648 (18 Aug 2015) # gcc[awt] is only used by gcj-jdk[awt] and that isn't needed by # anything in the tree. The toolchain folks aren't keen to support it # and it should probably only be used if you really know what you're # doing *and* your name is gnu_andrew. ;) See bug #531900. sys-devel/gcc awt dev-java/gcj-jdk awt # Heather Cynede (13 Aug 2015) # mono currently fails with doc most likely because of xattr # Gentoo bug: 554484 >=dev-lang/mono-3.12.1 doc # Manuel Rüger (05 Jul 2015) # app-text/migemo is masked because it fails for ruby20 app-text/cmigemo emacs # Mike Gilbert (16 May 2015) # dev-lang/python[berkdb] fails with recent multilib sys-libs/db (bug 519584). dev-lang/python berkdb net-nds/nsscache nssdb # Jason Zaman (08 May 2015) # java wrappers fail to build (bug #548858) =app-admin/setools-3.3.8-r7 java # James Le Cuirot (05 Apr 2015) # dev-java/sun-j2me-bin is going away. dev-java/proguard j2me # Lars Wendler (19 Mar 2015) # >=games-strategy/freeciv-2.5.0 requires >=dev-lang/lua-5.2 games-strategy/freeciv system-lua # Brian Evans (17 Mar 2015) # Mask the cluster flag for deprecation. Use dev-db/mysql-cluster if # you need NDB. dev-db/mariadb cluster dev-db/mysql cluster # Andrew Savchenko (11 Feb 2015) # Cluster code is still under development, only base functionality # is implemented. Masking for testing and evaluation. app-admin/clsync cluster mhash # Brian Evans (29 Nov 2014) # Strongly recommened by upstream to disable lzo and zlib due to memory leaks # https://github.com/groonga/groonga/issues/6 (Japanese) app-text/groonga lzo zlib # Jeroen Roovers (18 Nov 2014) # Requires dev-lang/lua-5.2 (bug #253269) net-analyzer/nmap system-lua # Mike Frysinger (21 Oct 2014) # Most targets do not support ASAN/etc... #504200. sys-devel/gcc sanitize # Pacho Ramos (19 Oct 2014) # swfdec is masked for removal, bug #525834 dev-libs/DirectFB swfdec # Rick Farina (26 Aug 2014) # mirisdr does not seem to like making releases (05 Aug 2014) # net-libs/tox is in mva overlay only ATM app-leechcraft/lc-azoth sarin # Brian Evans (30 Jul 2014) # Mask embedded due to upstream not supporting # https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1236873 dev-db/percona-server embedded # Thomas Sachau (30 Jun 2014) # Mask pixman USE flag of dev-libs/efl for future removal, bug 501074 dev-libs/efl pixman # Manuel Rüger (05 Jun 2014) # Fails to build with net-libs/libotr-4.0.0 net-im/climm otr # Pacho Ramos (01 Jun 2014) # Needs hardmasked lua-5.2 >=media-plugins/grilo-plugins-0.2.12 lua # Rick Farina (30 Dec 2015) # mask test use flag since tests do not pass # mask development use flag since most of it isn't packaged (or useful) net-analyzer/metasploit development test # Tom Wijsman (14 May 2014) # Documentation generation needs APIviz which is not in the Portage tree yet. # Tracked in Gentoo bug #509602. dev-java/jboss-logging doc # Manuel Rüger (07 Mar 2014) # Mask ruby18-only compatible flags # Bugs: 483104, 483102 (03 Feb 2014) # Upstream says to not use this for now. dev-libs/elfutils threads # Gilles Dartiguelongue (23 Dec 2013) # Gstreamer support fails to build due to libtool shortcomings when using # an intermediate library as a dependency of another libtool target dependency. # Since this is new and unused yet, keep it masked for now and check # with upstream if there is something that can be done to fix the issue. media-libs/cogl gstreamer # Michał Górny (10 Nov 2013) # (on behalf of python@) # USE=sandbox is not done properly in Gentoo and results in crippled # PyPy install that is not usable for non-sandbox clients (and there are # no real sandbox clients right now). Masked until the flag is # re-implemented or dropped. For more details, bug #429372. dev-python/pypy sandbox dev-python/pypy3 sandbox # Julian Ospald (31 Aug 2013) # Randomly breaks consumers at runtime. Do not report # gentoo bugs. media-libs/libsdl2 custom-cflags # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (22 Aug 2013) # Causes build to fail, issue is being discussed with upstream >=www-plugins/gnash-0.8.10_p20130822 openvg # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (13 Jul 2013) # GL/GLES support in cairo is mutually exclusive, bug #428770. x11-libs/cairo gles2 dev-libs/weston rpi # Kacper Kowalik (19 May 2013) # Fails to build, haven't had time to debug app-doc/doxygen sqlite # Alexis Ballier (08 May 2013) # On behalf of Pavel Sanda # Lyx is currently not working with subversion 1.7 and needs 1.6. app-office/lyx subversion # Christian Faulhammer (08 May 2013) # Will not build successfully yet mail-client/claws-mail gtk3 # Bernard Cafarelli (04 Apr 2013) # Broken for now (segmentation fault on play) gnustep-apps/cynthiune flac # Richard Freeman (24 Mar 2013) # Dependency is masked for buffer overflows for now dev-python/pyocr cuneiform # Tom Wijsman (10 Mar 2013) # Experimental, masked until it compiles and works. media-libs/avidemux-core system-ffmpeg # Julian Ospald (20 Feb 2013) # Unsupported and experimental. # NP-Hardass (18 Jun 2015) # Change to <10 (15 Dec 2012) # PGO is known to be busted with most configurations www-client/firefox pgo # Sergey Popov (26 Nov 2012) # PDF docs building failed with sandbox violation media-libs/opencolorio pdf # Diego Elio Pettenò (27 Aug 2012) # The libpci access is only used for linux. net-analyzer/net-snmp pci # Diego Elio Pettenò (20 Aug 2012) # The prevent-removal USE flag is only implemented for Linux. sys-auth/pam_mktemp prevent-removal # Andreas K. Huettel (25 Mai 2012) # Requires icc which does not emerge (distfile unavailable) media-libs/opencv ipp # Samuli Suominen (20 Mar 2012) # This is for udev-acl. Unmasked in default/linux/package.use.mask. sys-auth/consolekit acl # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (25 Feb 2012) # directfb build issues, bug #405817. www-plugins/gnash directfb # Bernard Cafarelli (08 Feb 2012) # libobjc2/clang experimental support >=gnustep-base/gnustep-make-2.6.2 libobjc2 # Samuli Suominen (10 Jan 2012) # This is required only for Linux, so mask it here and unmask in # default/linux/package.use.mask. Bug 354923. app-arch/libarchive e2fsprogs # Mike Frysinger (06 Dec 2011) # No one should be mucking with libssp unless they really know what they're # doing. Force extra work on the smart peeps to protect the not-so-smart. sys-devel/gcc libssp # Andrey Grozin (29 Mar 2011) # dev-lang/swig-2.0.2 with -octave generated .cpp files # incompatible with >=sci-mathematics/octave-3.4.0 sci-libs/mathgl octave # Diego E. Pettenò (27 Mar 2011) # # Mask pdnsd's Linux-specific USE flags. net-dns/pdnsd isdn urandom # Raúl Porcel (13 Feb 2011) # Masked until devs know how to use repoman (17 Nov 2010) # Upstream didn't release patches for aria yet >=sci-chemistry/cns-1.3 aria # Tomas Touceda (13 Apr 2010) # Masked because libsvm module is broken with this release on every arch. dev-lisp/clisp svm # Diego E. Pettenò (18 Jan 2010) # Don't use system-wide mode unless you *really* know what you're doing. # Keep it masked here so that I don't need to manage two versions every time. media-sound/pulseaudio system-wide # Jeremy Olexa (10 Jan 2010) # Upsteam doesn't support ioctl backend and neither does Gentoo. ioctl USE flag # will eventually be removed unless the backend is re-written by upstream. bug # 299674 >net-misc/wicd-1.6.2.2 ioctl # These are for BSD only net-proxy/squid ipf-transparent pf-transparent app-admin/sshguard ipfilter # Alexis Ballier <16 Feb 2011> # Win32 specific useflags for vlc. Can be used for cross-compiling. media-video/vlc directx dxva2 # Mac OSX / iPhone OS specific useflags media-video/vlc audioqueue macosx-dialog-provider macosx-eyetv macosx-quartztext macosx-qtkit