On Tuesday 11 February 2003 21:33, Brett Campbell wrote: > This means that the software you wish to install has been held back by > developers because of a buggy install-file or anything else undesirable. > see > > http://gentoowiki.iq-computing.de/index.php?pagename=PackageMask > > you shouldn't unmask a package unless you know what you're doing. give it > some time, and fire an `emerge rsync` and try again (my signature tells > best, my friend). you could always get the source from somewhere else and > compile it yourself, but then you'd just be defeating the purpose of > portage in general... > > best of luck,
BTW. as compiling java yourself is not really supported well by sun this package will probably stay masked forever. Really compiling mozilla and galeon with gcc-2.95.3 is much easier and stable than recompiling java. Also it helps with some flash stability problems. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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