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

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         John Covici
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