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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