Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daniele Salatti <linuxlist@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:52:57
Message-Id: 44BEA936.5080703@salatti.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice by Dmitri Pogosyan
1 Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
2 > In general, when you see masked package in 'emerge --search',
3 > whether you can use it or not depends on how it is masked.
4 > If it was ~amd64, meaning it is in testing stage, you could compile it and
5 > probably be happy, but openoffice is -amd64, which means it does not work.
6 > Unfortunately 'emerge --search' does not give this detailed information.
7 > One way to check is to run
8 >
9 > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~amd64' emerge --pretend openoffice and see if
10 > this unmasks the package.
11 >
12 >
13 >
14 >
15 >> Hi list!!
16 >> "emerge --search openoffice" show that openoffice is masked. Instead,
17 >> there is an unmasked package called openoffice-bin. Does it mean that
18 >> OOo doesn't compile on amd64?
19 >> TIA, Daniele
20 >>
21 >> --
22 >> gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
23 >>
24 >
25 >
26 >
27 > --
28 > Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics
29 > Associate Professor University of Alberta
30 > tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs
31 > fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA
32 >
33 Thank you!! I emerged openoffice-bin, and all is working fine...
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