Wonderful world of new dists..

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 13:14:29 EST 2006


  Grr..  Ok, now I'm running, and trying to emerge things that say they're
'masked'.  Important things.  Like, the drivers for my HARDWARE!  ;-)

  I'm thinking maybee gentoo isn't up to speed enough for me at this point.
I believe these are masked becouse I'm running amd64 branch.  I 'bypassed'
some of the masks, but others just won't let me go.  I'm specifically trying
to use ipw3945, which requires ipw3945d and ipw3945-ucode.  I managed to get
it passed for the first two, but the latter won't go.  Also trying to unmask
the bio API's so I can utilize my fingerprint reader.

  Thomas

On 11/4/06, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/3/06, aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net <aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >    Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0500
> >    From: "Thomas Charron" < twaffle at gmail.com>
> > Guru?  Maybe not.  But pixie dust?  That I migt be able to manage. ;)
> > Try merging your targets individually, instead of all at one shot in a
> > single merge---that way the library version(s) *expected* by the
> > ebuild might be in place.  In other words, delay (or don't) merging
> > kopete.
>
>
>   That would have been over 300 packages.  PASS.  ;-)  Kopete is part of
> the kdenetwork package, so delaying it couldnt happen.  I didn't have any
> control on that part, I don't believe.
>
>   I did find the issue (which was retarded, btw)
>
>   Apperently, kdelibs was either not installed, or needed to be
> recompiled.  I made a change to my use flags, to allow Qt to support opengl,
> and reemerged qt3 and qt4.  kdelibs needed to be reemerged as well
> apperently, as that solved the issue I was having.
>
>
> If that's not possible (because, for instance, kopete is a *DEPEND),
> > look for a USE flag that might cause the DEP on kopete to go away.  If
> > that doesn't help, copy the ebuild (or relevant eclass) to your
> > PORTDIR_OVERLAY tree (you have one, right?) and edit the braindead
> > function that tests for compatible libraries.
>
>
>
>   I have no idea what a PORTDIR_OVERLAY is.
>
> If none of the these work, try putting "-kde" from your USE
> > setting---like I do---and this problem should go away. :P
> >
>
>
>   Die, thnx.  ;-)  Gnome is like a utopian communist society.
>
>
>   Thomas
>
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