On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:39:29 -0500, John covici wrote: > Well, the forum post helped, except that package.unmask seems to be in > /etc/portage and I thought he had said it was in /etc/portage/profile Those are different files, you need the one in profile. This is because the real USE flag is masked in your profile, and files in /etc/portage/profile are used to override this. Note that the file is package.use.mask not package.mask. -- Neil Bothwick I am Superconductor Borg, assimilation resistance is futile.