On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:13 +0100, David Morgan wrote: > On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > > But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an > > explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually > > means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE > > flag is masked under this specific profile), in such a way that one > > would know if it was something one had to learn to live with > > (definitively unresolveable), or was in some way "unmaskable". That's > > the original issue-- is there a way to compile mPlayer using this USE > > flag under this profile, or is there not? Normally, *.mask files seem to > > contain some explanation of the reason for the mask (even if only > > minimal), which is why I was looking through them, but here that does > > not seem to be the case. Does that mean that the OP is SOL? > > > > My guess is that he's SOL.
What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) > If I were in that situation I'd just edit > /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask and see if win32codecs will work on > that profile, and if they did they I'd try and figure out how to do it > properly Hmm.. I think I will try to comment it out and see what goes/gives. > > I think there's a good chance that win32codecs just won't work with > uclibc though. You might be able to find the reason that it's masked on > bugzilla, in the gentoo-embedded archives or on google. I'll trawl and report what I find here (if I find anything :-) Thanks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:21:20 up 9:46, 5 users, load average: 0.28, 0.80, 0.96 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
