so far i've been so very pleased with gentoo... so pleased in fact that i
decided to try some of the more risky stuff and install a masked package or
two. the thinking behind this wasn't entirely adventure-driven however, i
had a purpose in mind: i wanted the latest version of k3b 'cause 0.8 didn't
work properly.
so i tried
# USE="~x86" emerge k3b
that't didn't work though 'cause it just tried to replace what i had with 0.8.
so i tried this:
# emerge /usr/portage/app-cdr/k3b/k3b-0.9_pre2.ebuild
and sure enough, that worked just fine... except that now the
dvd-ripper/encoder wasn't working, so i did:
# emerge /usr/portage/media-video/transcode/transcode-0.6.8.ebuild
# emerge /usr/portage/media-libs/divx4linux/divx4linux-20030428.ebuild
and now i have a working k3b with dvd ripping/encoding support. yay! but
then today i tried the usual:
# emerge --update --deep world
and instead of getting the usual "you have these packages to update", i got
this:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies -
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/divx4linux-20030428" have
been masked.
!!! (dependency required by "media-video/transcode-0.6.8" [ebuild])
!!! Problem with ebuild media-video/transcode-0.6.8
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
doing adding the "--upgradeonly" option didn't work either, so now i'm stuck
with a crippled system until i either (a) downgrade my software, or (b)
figure out wht someone is supposed to do in this position. anyone care to
fill me in?
btw, outside of the above, i've found no problems with k3b-0.9pre2 so i'd
suggest that it get unmasked... where do i make this suggestion?
thanks
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