Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:42 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it emerge -vp

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it emerge -vp sci-visualization/paraview I get

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to see if that is your problem. Many thanks (to Albert, as well). I didn't know about that. How can I revert that mask (in

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to see if that is your problem. Many thanks (to Albert, as well). I didn't know

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview does not work with the unmasked versions

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: Now you know he is going to want this even more since it is reported not to work. lol Curiosity you know will get him. If nothing else, he will want to know what it breaks. ;-) Dale Even better is if he fixes it, reports the fix, supplies a

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview does

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: Now you know he is going to want this even more since it is reported not to work. lol Curiosity you know will get him. If nothing else, he will want to know what it breaks. ;-) Dale Even better is if he fixes

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview does