Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > > >>> sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to >>> see if that is your problem. >>> >> Many thanks (to Albert, as well). >> I didn't know about that. >> How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) >> without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask >> > > You shouldn't, because it is highly unlikely to work right now. Flags are > masked on arches for sound technical reasons, they are not mere optional > defaults. /var/portage/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask has this to > say: > > # Mask until Qt 4.4 works with this package, as we need to mask 4.3 > # because of bug 248038. See also bug 243362. > sci-visualization/paraview qt4 > > So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview does not > work with the unmasked versions of qt4 in portage > >
Now you know he is going to want this even more since it is reported not to work. lol Curiosity you know will get him. If nothing else, he will want to know what it breaks. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
