Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: (-mono) missing in gmime for app-misc/beagle-0.2.1
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:03:52
Message-Id: 200602241502.04289.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: (-mono) missing in gmime for app-misc/beagle-0.2.1 by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Friday 24 February 2006 14:43, Duncan wrote:
2 > Michal Zeravík posted <43FF0612.8090103@×××××××.com>, excerpted below,
3 >
4 > In general, (-flag) indicates that the referred to USE flag is hard
5 > masked by your profile, which happens when it can't be made to work.
6 >
7 > mono apparently doesn't compile as 64-bit code yet, so it's masked on
8 > the amd64 profiles.
9 >
10 > You have four choices. If you are a developer type, investigate
11 > helping port mono to amd64. If you aren't or simply aren't interested
12 > in that, consider the not unusual on Gentoo-amd64 32-bit x86 arch
13 > chroot solution. Choice three is copying all the necessary binaries
14 > from a 32-bit machine, preferably into /usr/local/* or the like, to
15 > prevent overwrite issues and help keep tracking the stuff you've added
16 > apart from portage a bit easier. Lastly, you can decide it's not worth
17 > the hassle and just do without, until there's a proper 64-bit solution
18 > available.
19
20 Also realise that beagle is a mono app, so mono is a hard requirement for
21 beagle. For beagles integration with other applications (such as
22 firefox), the bitness of mono will probably also matter.
23
24 Paul
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27 Paul de Vrieze
28 Gentoo Developer
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