On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> In /etc/portage/package.use I have
>>
>>    # Need these or for some games
>>    gnome-extra/gnome-games         clutter opengl
>>
>> But when I try to emerge gnome-games, I don't get clutter
>>
>>   [ebuild   R   ] gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.30.2-r1  USE="guile opengl 
>> -artworkextra (-clutter) -test" 0 kB
>>
>> I know that the (-clutter) means that the clutter flag has been removed,
>> but I can't see why it is removed.  Indeed the ebuild specifically warns
>> me that disabling clutter means certain games are not built.
>
> It is masked by profile. Look in
> /usr/portage/profile/base/package.use.mask you can see:
>
> # Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> (29 Jun 2010)
> # Mask clutter till introspection is unmasked
> =gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.3* clutter

Thank you.  The real reason for this is not to have more gnome-games
available but to try out gnome3.

allan

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