Why is wbar masked? (New gentoo user)

Xenos Katawin · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

Hi

emerge --search wbar tells me that wbar is masked. So not wanting to shoot myself in the foot by emerging the program, I searched the forums and web. There is no wbar entry in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask There don't seem to be any posts related to the masking anywhere, only that you need to emerge imlib2 for wbar to work.

Can anybody give me a point in the right direction?

Thanks

ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

as far as I can see, wbar isn't masked here.
Regarding the ebuilds KEYWORDS="amd64 ~x86" you might need to alter your /etc/portage/package.keywords and add a line stating

zyko · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

Look at those two:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part3_chap3
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly#Forcing_Unstable_Packages

ZeuZ_NG · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

Well, I also had that question, but unmasked the ebuild and it warks like a charm (after I did mess a little to get imlib2 because I didn't know that was the reason why it was failing) still, it's a little green to what auto-refresh it should have, pieces of the screen get stuck into the bottom of the icons (the background)

But either way, don't worry, it has less than nothing that could cause your system a harm, just one advice, install wbarconf (this one is not in portage afaik, but it's easy to get and install, and would help you to deal with wbar switchs.)
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