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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
