On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >>> >>>> >>>> emerge -vp avahi >>>> >>> >>> r...@smoker ~ # emerge -vp avahi >>> >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >>> >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>> [ebuild R ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 USE="dbus gdbm gtk ipv6 >>> mdnsresponder-compat python qt4 -autoipd -bookmarks -doc -howl-compat >>> -mono >>> (-qt3) -test" 0 kB [1] >>> >>> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB >>> Portage tree and overlays: >>> [0] /usr/portage >>> [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset >>> >>> * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. >>> * Use eselect news to read news items. >>> >>> r...@smoker ~ # >>> >>> >>> I can't help but notice that qt3 is disabled on that. It is turned on in >>> make.conf so something somewhere is disabling the USE flag. My USE line >>> from make.conf: >>> >>> USE="-a52 acl acpi alsa -arts automount avahi -bluetooth -branding bzip2 >>> cddb cdr chroot clucene -crypt curl dbus -doc -dts dvd dvdr -eds esd exif >>> fdftk -fftw -firefox -gcj gif gimp gkrellm -gnome gnutls gphoto2 gtk hal >>> hbci ipv6 -jabber -jingle java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde >>> kdeprefix libwww logrotate loop-aes mmx mng mplayer mp3 >>> mdnsresponder-compat >>> -musepack mysql -nls nsplugin ofx offensive opengl -oss -otr parport pdf >>> ppds ppp qt3 qt3support qt4 sasl seamonkey -sqlite -sqlite3 sse syslog >>> tcl >>> -theora tiff tk truetype usb -v4l webkit win32codecs wma wmf X xml yahoo >>> -xulrunner zeroconf 3dnow " >>> >>> >>> Is make.conf not the last word on things anymore? >>> >> >> Looks like qt3 USE flag has been masked in profile since yesterday, so >> I think I have your solution now: >> >> echo "-qt3">> /etc/make.profile/use.mask >> >> Now emerge net-dns/avahi and hopefully it has qt3 enabled, then >> hopefully you can emerge the rest like you were trying to do in your >> original message. :) >> >> > > I did that and get this: > > [ebuild R ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 USE="dbus gdbm gtk ipv6 > mdnsresponder-compat python qt3* qt4 -autoipd -bookmarks -doc -howl-compat > -mono -test" 0 kB [1] > > > So, that seems to work. Question: Since I want it enabled, why does there > have to be a minus sign in front? Is that to reverse the disabling > elsewhere? It sort of seems backwards.
Yeah, since it is a mask file the minus actually means "don't mask" and "qt3" without a minus means "mask". I guess they could make an "unmask" file and let you put "qt3" in there instead. :)
