In general, when you see masked package in 'emerge --search', whether you can use it or not depends on how it is masked. If it was ~amd64, meaning it is in testing stage, you could compile it and probably be happy, but openoffice is -amd64, which means it does not work. Unfortunately 'emerge --search' does not give this detailed information. One way to check is to run
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~amd64' emerge --pretend openoffice and see if this unmasks the package. > Hi list!! > "emerge --search openoffice" show that openoffice is masked. Instead, > there is an unmasked package called openoffice-bin. Does it mean that > OOo doesn't compile on amd64? > TIA, Daniele > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Associate Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
