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

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