Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with qt? Almost ALL masked or keyworded now.

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008, Dale wrote:
>
>> So even the qt3 that I have installed is masked.  What's going on?  I
>> have and plan to keep KDE 3.5.8 around for a while so I assume it
>> needs qt3 but yet KDE 4.0 needs qt4 if I understand correctly.
>>  What's the best thing to do here?
>>
>
> Well, it's not all masked in the tree:
>
> alan@nazgul ~ $ eix -e qt
> [I] x11-libs/qt
>      Available versions:
>         (3)     3.3.4-r8 3.3.8-r4
>         (4)     4.3.1-r1 4.3.2 4.3.2-r1 (~)4.3.3 [M](~)4.4.0_rc1
>
> You've been using autounmask lately? Maybe that screwed it up. Or maybe
> you did, especially aas you just confessed in public to being an
> idiot :-)
>
> Check the contents of /etc/portage/package.mask/*
>
>


Actually, I hadn't used autounmask, yet.  I was trying not to use it 
actually.  When I ran autounmask, it fixed it.  I got a couple blocks to 
deal with but after autounmask did it's thing, it seems a lot happier 
now.  I had tried the keyword and unmask file off the Gentoo howto but I 
guess it needs a little update or something. 

Oh, I keep back-ups of my /etc directory and even a couple old copies of 
keyword/unmask/mask files, just in case I do something silly.

Yea, I sometimes do things that makes me feel like a idiot.  Don't we 
all tho??

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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