On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> emerge -vp avahi >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> r...@smoker ~ # emerge -vp avahi >>>>> >>>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >>>>> >>>>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>>>> [ebuild R ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 USE="dbus gdbm gtk ipv6 >>>>> mdnsresponder-compat python qt4 -autoipd -bookmarks -doc -howl-compat >>>>> -mono >>>>> (-qt3) -test" 0 kB [1] >>>>> >>>>> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB >>>>> Portage tree and overlays: >>>>> [0] /usr/portage >>>>> [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset >>>>> >>>>> * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. >>>>> * Use eselect news to read news items. >>>>> >>>>> r...@smoker ~ # >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I can't help but notice that qt3 is disabled on that. It is turned on >>>>> in >>>>> make.conf so something somewhere is disabling the USE flag. My USE >>>>> line >>>>> from make.conf: >>>>> >>>>> USE="-a52 acl acpi alsa -arts automount avahi -bluetooth -branding >>>>> bzip2 >>>>> cddb cdr chroot clucene -crypt curl dbus -doc -dts dvd dvdr -eds esd >>>>> exif >>>>> fdftk -fftw -firefox -gcj gif gimp gkrellm -gnome gnutls gphoto2 gtk >>>>> hal >>>>> hbci ipv6 -jabber -jingle java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde >>>>> kdeprefix libwww logrotate loop-aes mmx mng mplayer mp3 >>>>> mdnsresponder-compat >>>>> -musepack mysql -nls nsplugin ofx offensive opengl -oss -otr parport >>>>> pdf >>>>> ppds ppp qt3 qt3support qt4 sasl seamonkey -sqlite -sqlite3 sse syslog >>>>> tcl >>>>> -theora tiff tk truetype usb -v4l webkit win32codecs wma wmf X xml >>>>> yahoo >>>>> -xulrunner zeroconf 3dnow " >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Is make.conf not the last word on things anymore? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Looks like qt3 USE flag has been masked in profile since yesterday, so >>>> I think I have your solution now: >>>> >>>> echo "-qt3">> /etc/make.profile/use.mask >>>> >>>> Now emerge net-dns/avahi and hopefully it has qt3 enabled, then >>>> hopefully you can emerge the rest like you were trying to do in your >>>> original message. :) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I did that and get this: >>> >>> [ebuild R ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 USE="dbus gdbm gtk ipv6 >>> mdnsresponder-compat python qt3* qt4 -autoipd -bookmarks -doc >>> -howl-compat >>> -mono -test" 0 kB [1] >>> >>> >>> So, that seems to work. Question: Since I want it enabled, why does >>> there >>> have to be a minus sign in front? Is that to reverse the disabling >>> elsewhere? It sort of seems backwards. >>> >> >> Yeah, since it is a mask file the minus actually means "don't mask" >> and "qt3" without a minus means "mask". I guess they could make an >> "unmask" file and let you put "qt3" in there instead. :) >> >> > > That explains it. Here is the funny thing now. It had about 50 or so > packages, all KDE 3.5, that needed to be reemerged before this change was > made. Now I get this: > > r...@smoker ~ # emerge @preserved-rebuild > emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set > emerge: no targets left after set expansion > r...@smoker ~ # > > > So, that fixed a lot of things easily. Now the next person knows how to > "correct" this as well. > > Thanks
No problem, glad I could help!
