Hi,

For anybody not following bug #29388[1]:

The situation of motif in portage is a mess currently. There are three 
different versions: lesstif, openmotif-2.1, openmotif-2.2. Some programs 
require a special version, some work with every version, but currently you 
can only install one of them. So i sat down and wrote x11-libs/motif-config 
and corresponding ebuilds (openmotif-2.1.30-r8, openmotif-2.2.3-r2, 
lesstif-0.94.0-r1) that provide virtual/motif. What does it do? It let you 
install all three versions of motif side by side and you can choose which 
motif version you want to use as default. Packages that require a special 
version of motif can use motif-config to find out the correct linking and 
include path. This should elimitate current problems and the need of a 
lesstif useflag.

Currently all this packages are hardmask, so please give it a try. If there 
are no complaints or grave bugs within a week, i'll move them to testing.

mfg, heinrich :)

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29388

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