Re: [gentoo-mips] R5000 o2 X11 and kde

[Andrew Finley <afinley@gis.umn.edu>]

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the help, X build just fine and gdm looks o-so-nice.  I tried
to emerge kde, but got the (masked by: ~mips keyword). 

How do I get around this? 

Should I get around this? 

Do I need to put something in my /etc/portage/package.unmask?

With with all my questions, you made a mini-howto for dummies:-)

-andy




On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:57, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Andrew Finley wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> > I went back through and double checked everything, rebooted, and
> > resetenv, and presto, arcboot booted properly.  Now we're cooking!
> > 
> > Then tried to emerge X-org, which compiled fine but could not build a
> > config file.  I looked for some documentation on the gentoo mips site
> > but didn't see much (and elsewhere).  Is it possible to get X and
> > eventually kde running?  Thanks again for your help.
> > 
> > 
> 
> See Ian's message about the config file and building X with the static 
> USE flag.  As for kde, it should work just fine, although it may take 
> two to three days to build it all.
> 
> Steve
> 
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