From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8dby-0007zW-IE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:37:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30CDBE0997; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f224.google.com (mail-gx0-f224.google.com [209.85.217.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CB5E0997 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so5022754gxk.6 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:37:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=u6bX/TPXGgmSWK9xDuWVuJNJYgljO3/FEuVA7J+yOlg=; b=wdGw6sPTpIlQFXN0cZ6TOffzp0vAfDBTNk39D9MLOiKw5G6AgWT4hggfJ0uutTzq9e uhYfLI131ualg27Jg++Ftr6CEL2ze++3ltwrooF36b7jFwF5Qu9A3KDDiPjuoSw7K0si Ppx3NDKnSmFvf3erdRwjtxbfRD7NiO5wdrTpw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LBchuxIWnI5noYtJJpDM77wpSNbv9GsJwn9zoae6sdwGUkBoNKTJgVjTCXtNRTS5gD um7lSWCFLY5Xf/5MqgY855o0kdZqHCRRac/rjCauK2+UCQWUjRYj+W+7nDPEP4gO+T7N zPmifF2kfRdx2q3v/1m2614vqg2vrWmxgqgBQ= Received: by 10.101.7.28 with SMTP id k28mr3142222ani.49.1258047452726; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-116-142.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.116.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm1107412ywi.12.2009.11.12.09.37.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:37:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AFC47D8.3030503@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:37:28 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091110 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag References: <4AFC08F9.6020104@gmail.com> <20091112132645.75bcdcfa@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4AFC181A.3050203@gmail.com> <200911121625.51466.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200911121625.51466.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a26e9172-e08c-4ac9-a84c-6495a14faf8b X-Archives-Hash: c8e7cae08c450355b360d352f8c59713 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:13:46 Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:13 -0600, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 USE="acl alsa cups fam >>>> jpeg2k spell tiff (-arts) -avahi -bindist -branding -debug -doc >>>> -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter" 0 kB >>>> [1] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> So, portage is ignoring my USE flags. Do I need a hammer for this to >>>> work? Is this me or what? I'm confused. >>>> >>> The arts use flag has been masked, that why it is parenthesised. >>> >>> % grep arts /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask >>> # Mask USE arts. Deprecated. Remove this entry when kdelibs-3 is out of >>> tree. >>> arts >>> >>> You need to add -arts to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask >>> >> While I was searching with Google, it is said this can be gotten rid of >> which I don't mind doing. As long as the sound works, which others says >> it does, then I'm fine without it. When I disable it, or remove it from >> make.conf, it won't re-emerge anything when I run emerge -uvDN world. >> The key part being the -N of course. >> > > arts was a disgusting piece of crap that never should have been suffered to > live. You never needed it then and you certainly don't need it now. It's been > abandoned for many years now (at least 4?) > Well, if it would let me ditch it, I would ditch it. I guess it is KDE that wants this thing so badly. I dunno. > > >> Anyway, I don't have that file so do I just create it? Is it sort of >> like a package.unmask file? >> > > Yes. It's your locally defined USE flag mask, identical in purpose to the one > the devs place into your profile > > I echo'd it in and it is rebuilding stuff as we speak. Maybe it will work when all this gets done. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)