# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors # 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. # Michał Górny (2019-09-28) # media-fonts/hkscs-ming is slated for removal. app-i18n/xcin unicode # Craig Andrews (2019-09-12) # OpenSSL (as of version 1.1.1) doesn't have APIs for QUIC support # see https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8797 net-libs/ngtcp2 ssl # Michał Górny (2019-09-08) # LLVM 5 is being removed. ~dev-ada/gps-2018 gnat_2017 # Michał Górny (2019-09-07) # media-libs/libnut is slated for removal. media-video/mplayer nut # Michał Górny (2019-09-07) # media-libs/fmod is slated for removal. games-arcade/savagewheels fmod games-fps/doomsday fmod # Thomas Deutschmann (2019-09-02) # PGO not yet supported for comm-central, #693160 >=mail-client/thunderbird-68 pgo # Matt Turner (2019-09-01) # (2019-08-27) # net-misc/tokyotyrant is slated for removal. app-metrics/collectd collectd_plugins_tokyotyrant # Michał Górny (2019-08-25) # sys-cluster/open-mx is masked for removal. sys-cluster/openmpi openmpi_fabrics_open-mx # Kent Fredric (2019-08-07) # Newer versions of nqp need newer versions of jdk to run on the jvm, # but these currently don't exist in gentoo. The USE flags have to be # kept around for dependency reasons from rakudo and friends. >=dev-lang/nqp-2019.07 java # Thomas Deutschmann (2019-08-03) # Early microcode loading is only supported on amd64 & x86 sys-kernel/linux-firmware initramfs # Lars Wendler (2019-07-26) # Requires dev-libs/gumbo which is only keyworded for amd64 and x86 mail-client/claws-mail litehtml # David Seifert (2019-07-14) # media-libs/jasper will be removed in 30 days, bug #689784 dev-games/openscenegraph jpeg2k dev-python/weasyprint jpeg2k dev-qt/qtimageformats jpeg2k media-gfx/dcraw jpeg2k media-gfx/digikam jpeg2k media-gfx/exact-image jpeg2k media-gfx/fim jpeg2k (2019-05-21) # Doesn't support ffmpeg-4. Portage takes a long time to report the # conflict and the feature is half broken anyway. See # https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/issues/179. games-emulation/vbam ffmpeg # Ulrich Müller (2019-05-18) # Firmware images without a known license. Most likely, upstream # redistribution may conflict with the licenses or lack thereof # on the images. Check the WHENCE file in the package for specific # terms. Masked to prevent accidental installation of these files, # bug #318841#c20. sys-kernel/linux-firmware unknown-license # Virgil Dupras (2019-04-29) # Docs are temporarily broken. See bug #680014 dev-python/pandas doc # Ulrich Müller (2019-04-25) # Pulls in media-fonts/kochi-substitute as dependency, which allows # only non-commercial distribution and can therefore not be included # with Gentoo install media. Mask the l10n_ja flag until a better # solution is found, e.g., transition to a free font package. app-text/ghostscript-gpl l10n_ja # Georgy Yakovlev (2019-04-17) # Mask jre useflags for use as system java-vm until it's proven to work dev-java/openjdk-jre-bin:8 gentoo-vm dev-java/openjdk-jre-bin:11 gentoo-vm # Michał Górny (2019-04-10) # media-sound/aacplusenc is slated for removal. media-video/h264enc aac # Michał Górny (2019-03-21) # x11-wm/afterstep is slated for removal. x11-terms/aterm background # Michał Górny (2019-03-21) # net-mail/uw-imap masked for removal. dev-perl/NetxAP test # Michał Górny (2019-03-16) # Requires last rited dev-python/scimath. dev-python/construct python_targets_python2_7 # Brian Evans (2019-03-15) # Prepare to remove the mysqlcompat USE from mariadb-connector-c # Has multiple issues including symlinks and threading. # Packages should use and access libmariadb.so instead dev-db/mariadb-connector-c mysqlcompat # Georgy Yakovlev (2019-03-05) # Not keyworded on non-x86 arches app-admin/conserver freeipmi # Georgy Yakovlev (2019-01-17) # Mask openjdk:8 for use as system java-vm until it's proven to work dev-java/openjdk:8 gentoo-vm dev-java/openjdk-bin:8 gentoo-vm # William Hubbs (2019-01-13) # For memtest86+ mask the floppy use flag since it requires grub:0 which # is being removed # (bug #674364) sys-apps/memtest86+ floppy # Brian Evans (2019-01-11) # Depend on the EOL PHP 7.0 dev-libs/Ice php # Michał Górny (2018-12-01) # Moved from use.mask to specific packages. # Andreas Sturmlechner (2018-05-10) # media-sound/mumble is masked/not keyworded at this point, bug #656826. games-fps/quake3 mumble games-fps/turtlearena mumble games-fps/urbanterror mumble games-rpg/manaplus mumble # Michał Górny (2018-11-28) # Requires last-rited games-server/ut2003-ded. games-fps/ut2003 dedicated # Alfredo Tupone (2018-11-18) # go brokes build of gnat-gpl dev-lang/gnat-gpl go # Pacho Ramos (2018-11-11) # pm-utils will be removed, bug #659616 net-misc/wicd pm-utils sys-apps/razercfg pm-utils sys-power/powermgmt-base pm-utils # Pacho Ramos (2018-11-11) # sci-libs/spqr is going to be removed dev-cpp/eigen test kde-apps/cantor julia sci-libs/ceres-solver sparse # Alfredo Tupone (2018-10-24) # jit brokes build of gnat-gpl dev-lang/gnat-gpl jit # Virgil Dupras (2018-09-26) # Server feature in paramiko is patched out for security reasons. It can # be re-enabled with the 'server' USE flag, but this flag is hard # masked. bug #666619 dev-python/paramiko server # Andreas K. Hüttel (2018-08-03) # New and for Gentoo still quite experimental. You've been # warned. (Also, works only on x86_64 and with certain CPUs # and compiler/binutils combinations.) sys-libs/glibc cet # Michał Górny (2018-06-13) # Requires app-arch/snappy[static-libs] that is no longer available. # Bugs #651604, #651606. app-emulation/qemu static (2018-05-16) # Depends on last-rited sci-libs/coinhsl. sci-libs/ipopt hsl # Göktürk Yüksek (2018-04-04) # libewf is getting treecleaned (#547418). # Starting with sleuthkit-4.6.0, we statically link sleuthkit to a # locally compiled libewf. Mask the prior versions. (2018-03-14) # Broken on all 32bit arches. Globally masked because of sys-apps/dmapi having # no active upstream anymore. # sys-cluster/ceph is only available on amd64 & x86, unmask per arch net-fs/samba dmapi ceph # Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> (2018-03-14) # Mask local USE flag to satisfy repoman app-emulation/fuse backend-svga # Patrick McLean (2018-03-06) # Requires dev-libs/boost-1.66 that is unkeyworded/masked >=sys-cluster/ceph-12.2.4 system-boost # Brian Evans (2018-03-05) # Mask embedded USE on virtual/mysql and friends to transition it to be obsolete virtual/mysql embedded dev-perl/DBD-mysql embedded # Brian Evans (2018-02-28) # Mask client-libs USE to force users to install alternative standard pacakges dev-db/mariadb client-libs dev-db/mysql client-libs dev-db/percona-server client-libs # Andreas K. Hüttel (2018-02-02) # This feature is not ready yet pre-2.29-r4, see bug 146882 comment 26 (2018-01-10) # Failing tests, with extra deps that aren't keyworded due to that >=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3.24 test # Andrey Utkin (2017-12-29) # This flag can be sensibly enabled only on macos. # Can be unmasked in prefix/darwin/macos profiles. Bug #637482 media-video/ffmpeg appkit # James Le Cuirot (2017-12-17) # 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:11 gentoo-vm dev-java/openjdk-bin:11 gentoo-vm dev-java/openjdk:11 gentoo-vm # Andreas K. Hüttel (2017-11-04) # Requires audacious, which is masked. Bug 632513 media-libs/freeverb3 jack # Andreas K. Huettel (2017-09-09) # Potentially destructive. Use it only if you know what you're doing. sys-libs/glibc vanilla # Michael Orlitzky (2017-08-24) # This is a security risk if not used carefully, bug 628596. net-analyzer/nrpe command-args # Michał Górny (2017-08-04) # sys-kernel/openvz-sources is being treecleaned wrt #580516. app-emulation/libvirt openvz # Michał Górny (2017-07-30) # The Z3 backend is unstable and causes assertion failures. Mask it # until upstream fixes it properly. (2017-07-09) # Matthias Dahl (2017-07-05) # 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 (2017-06-29) # 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 (2017-06-18) # 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 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2017-05-29) # Does not build sci-libs/linux-gpib php # Michał Górny (2017-05-15) # Mask ruby20-only compatible packages =media-libs/libcaca-0.99_beta19 ruby # Matthias Maier (2017-05-11) # Globally mask pie use flag. Selectively unmask on specific profiles. sys-devel/gcc pie # Pawel Hajdan jr (2017-03-02) # 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 (2017-02-17) # Python 2 package relies on gedit[python] which is py3 only. dev-vcs/rabbitvcs gedit # Mike Gilbert (2017-02-16) # Multiple test failures. sys-boot/grub:2 test # Ian Stakenvicius (2017-01-25) # rust on mozilla packages is experimental www-client/firefox rust mail-client/thunderbird rust # Lars Wendler (2017-01-19) # Masked until system heimdal can finally be used with AD DC net-fs/samba system-heimdal # Magnus Granberg (2017-01-18) # 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 (2016-12-04) # 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 (2016-11-27) # Not rely on monodevelop, bug #596656 # dev-dotnet/zeitgeist-sharp is going to be removed, bug #582894 net-irc/hexchat theme-manager # Pacho Ramos (2016-11-27) # Avoid the usage of dead net-dialup/capi4k-utils app-emulation/crossover-bin capi # Ettore Di Giacinto (2016-11-10) # Dependency has no stable keyword # and as for now we have only stable mate versions mate-base/mate bluetooth # Ulrich Müller (2016-10-15) # The --with-cairo option is considered as experimental by upstream # and causes problems with updating the X window, bug #592238 app-editors/emacs:25 cairo app-editors/emacs:26 cairo app-editors/emacs-vcs:26 cairo # Michał Górny (2016-07-05) # 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 (2016-06-02) # Acked-by: Amy Winston # Currently broken upstream. >=dev-lang/rakudo-2016.05 java # Michał Górny (2016-05-14) # (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 (2016-05-08) # Most targets do not support VTV #547040. sys-devel/gcc vtv # Matthew Brewer (2016-05-08) # Acked-by: Amy Winston # Upstream supports using Clang's address sanitizer, but apparently # invokes it wrong. dev-lang/moarvm asan # Ian Stakenvicius (2016-04-28) # 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 (2016-04-10) # 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 # Patrice Clement (2015-11-27) # Unsastified dependencies are upsetting repoman. Needs investigation. app-arch/cfv bittorrent # Rick Farina (2015-10-06) # forward porting this patch is non-trivial, mask for now >=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.5 wimax # Justin Lecher (2015-09-22) # Downloads files during installation # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533876 >=sci-libs/vtk-6.1.0 examples # Jason Zaman (2015-09-06) # This is for cgmanager which is linux only. # Unmasked in default/linux/package.use.mask. sys-auth/consolekit cgroups # James Le Cuirot (2015-08-18) # 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 # Mike Gilbert (2015-05-16) # dev-lang/python[berkdb] fails with recent multilib sys-libs/db (bug 519584). dev-lang/python berkdb # Lars Wendler (2015-03-19) # >=games-strategy/freeciv-2.5.0 requires >=dev-lang/lua-5.2 games-strategy/freeciv system-lua # Andrew Savchenko (2015-02-11) # Cluster code is still under development, only base functionality # is implemented. Masking for testing and evaluation. app-admin/clsync cluster mhash # Brian Evans (2014-11-29) # 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 (2014-11-18) # Requires dev-lang/lua-5.2 (bug #253269) net-analyzer/nmap system-lua # Mike Frysinger (2014-10-21) # Most targets do not support ASAN/etc... #504200. sys-devel/gcc sanitize # Rick Farina (2014-08-26) # mirisdr does not seem to like making releases (2014-08-05) # net-libs/tox is in mva overlay only ATM app-leechcraft/lc-azoth sarin # Pacho Ramos (2014-06-01) # Needs hardmasked lua-5.2 >=media-plugins/grilo-plugins-0.2.12 lua # Rick Farina (2015-12-30) # 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 (2014-05-14) # Documentation generation needs APIviz which is not in the Portage tree yet. # Tracked in Gentoo bug #509602. dev-java/jboss-logging doc # Mike Frysinger (2014-02-03) # Upstream says to not use this for now. dev-libs/elfutils threads # Gilles Dartiguelongue (2013-12-23) # 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 (2013-11-10) # (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 (2013-08-31) # Randomly breaks consumers at runtime. Do not report # gentoo bugs. media-libs/libsdl2 custom-cflags # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (2013-07-13) # GL/GLES support in cairo is mutually exclusive, bug #428770. x11-libs/cairo gles2 # Kacper Kowalik (2013-05-19) # Fails to build, haven't had time to debug app-doc/doxygen sqlite # Alexis Ballier (2013-05-08) # On behalf of Pavel Sanda # Lyx is currently not working with subversion 1.7 and needs 1.6. app-office/lyx subversion # Christian Faulhammer (2013-05-08) # Will not build successfully yet mail-client/claws-mail gtk3 # Bernard Cafarelli (2013-04-04) # Broken for now (segmentation fault on play) gnustep-apps/cynthiune flac # Richard Freeman (2013-03-24) # Dependency is masked for buffer overflows for now dev-python/pyocr cuneiform # Tom Wijsman (2013-03-10) # Experimental, masked until it compiles and works. media-libs/avidemux-core system-ffmpeg # Jory A. Pratt (2012-12-15) # PGO is known to be busted with most configurations www-client/firefox pgo # Diego Elio Pettenò (2012-08-27) # The libpci access is only used for linux. net-analyzer/net-snmp pci # Diego Elio Pettenò (2012-08-20) # The prevent-removal USE flag is only implemented for Linux. sys-auth/pam_mktemp prevent-removal # Samuli Suominen (2012-03-20) # This is for udev-acl. Unmasked in default/linux/package.use.mask. sys-auth/consolekit acl # Bernard Cafarelli (2012-02-08) # libobjc2/clang experimental support >=gnustep-base/gnustep-make-2.6.2 libobjc2 # Samuli Suominen (2012-01-10) # 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 (2011-12-06) # 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 (2011-03-29) # 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 (2011-03-27) # # Mask pdnsd's Linux-specific USE flags. net-dns/pdnsd isdn urandom # Raúl Porcel (2011-02-13) # Masked until devs know how to use repoman (2010-11-17) # Upstream didn't release patches for aria yet >=sci-chemistry/cns-1.3 aria # Tomas Touceda (2010-04-13) # Masked because libsvm module is broken with this release on every arch. dev-lisp/clisp svm # Diego E. Pettenò (2010-01-18) # 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 (2010-01-10) # 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 # Alexis Ballier (2011-02-16) # Win32 specific useflag for vlc. Can be used for cross-compiling. media-video/vlc directx