OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X libraries, but that is another question for another day.
thanks much guys for all your help. on Tuesday 01/09/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:49, John covici wrote: > > I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild. I have in my > > /etc/portage/package.keywords the following line > > dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86 > > but emerge still complains about the package being masked. What am I > > doing wrong here? > > "dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" is an invalid atom. "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" > or "~dev-lang/php-4.4.4" would be valid atoms. You can read more about valid > atoms in `man 5 ebuild`. > > PS: Please stop top-posting: > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on mailing lists? > > -- > Bo Andresen -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list