OT: unmasking xfce 4.4 in gentoo portage

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Christian B wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone schrieb:
> 
>> Just copy the list from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to
>> /etc/portage/package.unmask.  Nothing "dirty" about it; that's the way
>> you're supposed to do it.
>
> *Don't* do that! Beside you want to use every masked package what is not 
> wise if you need a working and stable system! The best way to unmask 
> xfce: Add every needed package to /etc/portage/package.unmask. Start 
> with "xfce-base/xfce4", make an "emerge -vp xfce4" and you will get 
> information on the next blocked ebuild.

And if you do what I said, you'll essentially get the same result, as
pretty much all of the packages masked are required for 4.4.  Yes, I
know, not all the panel plugins are required, but if you have older
versions of them, they'll cease working when you update to 4.4 without
updating them.  If you don't have older versions of them, unmasking them
won't do anything; they still won't get installed.

If you *really* want to, you can change the '>=' conditions to '=' to
restrict it just to unmask 4.4.0 only, but it's not necessary as long as
you do what I'm about to say in the next paragraph.

Remember to check before the next time you do an update to see if
they've been unmasked in portage.  If so, remove them from your local
package.unmask file.

Anyway, this is way off-topic...  (That's your hint to leave it be and
let me get the last word ^_~.)

	-brian

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