Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> >> How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) >> >> without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask > >> > So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because parav

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Even better is

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > > How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask > > >>> So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support becau

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: > 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 Even better is if he fixes it, reports the fix, supplies a

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) > >> without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask > > So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview > > does not work with the unmasked v

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
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). >

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
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 ma

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview >> with a qt4 GUI. >> >> My /etc/portage/package.use contains >> sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi >> >> >> but when I try

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview > with a qt4 GUI. > > My /etc/portage/package.use contains > sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi > > > but when I try to emerge it > emerge -vp sci-visualization/paravi

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:42 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview > with a qt4 GUI. > > My /etc/portage/package.use contains > sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi > > > but when I try to emerge it > emerge -vp sci-visual

[gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it emerge -vp sci-visualization/paraview I get USE="examples mpi* python threads -doc -hdf5 (-qt4)" Wh