Wonderful world of new dists..
Dan Miller
rambi.dev at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 14:10:15 EST 2006
You can add the application to /etc/portage/package.unmask and
/etc/portage/package.keywords This will make them appear to be a normal
unmasked app. Also browse the forums, see what solutions are out there.
Dan
Thomas Charron wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:twaffle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 11/3/06, *aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net
> <mailto:aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net>* <
> aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net
> <mailto:aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0500
> From: "Thomas Charron" < twaffle at gmail.com
> <mailto: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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