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From: Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager-9999 won't compile
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:01:19
Message-Id: 4E9F7296.2050001@nileshgr.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager-9999 won't compile by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Thu 20 Oct 2011 05:30:24 AM IST, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2 > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Albert W. Hopkins
3 > <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 13:11 -0700, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
5 >>> Why don't you try networkmanager-0.9.1.90? It's working great for me
6 >>> in GNOME 3.2.0
7 >>>
8 >>> Is there something in the live ebuild that you need?
9 >>>
10 >> I can't confirm (never tried it) but I've been told the autounmask
11 >> option in portage will "blindly" unmask even live ebuilds.. which might
12 >> account for people suddenly pulling in a surprising (and potentially
13 >> problematic) amount of live ebuilds.
14 >
15 > I haven't tried the autounmask option from portage, neither. The GNOME
16 > overlay offers a series of files you can link to your
17 > /etc/portage/package.{unmask,keywords,use,use.mask} directories: They
18 > are located in
19 >
20 > ${OVERLAYDIR}/status/portage-configs/
21 >
22 > I haven't used those either, though. I prefer to unmask/keyword
23 > packages myself. What I do know is that using live ebuilds is
24 > basically flipping a coin; sometimes will work great, sometimes it
25 > will not even compile.
26 >
27 > Right now the only live ebuilds I'm using are:
28 >
29 > gnome-extra/libgda-9999
30 > media-sound/rhythmbox-9999
31 > sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-9999
32 > gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extensions-weather-9999
33 > gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extensions-system-monitor-9999
34 >
35 > Everything else works with the latest non-live ebuilds.
36 >
37 > Regards.
38
39 Did you just do emerge gnome (assumging that >=gnome-base/gnome-3.0 is
40 in package.unmask)? I'll try doing that again then, till now autounmask
41 was active.
42
43 --
44 Nilesh Govindarajan
45 http://nileshgr.com

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