infinality masked but i want to keep it

[Haraldpeter]

hi,
since 4 years i am very happy with infinality ultimate font rendering and i do not want to miss it . is it possible to keep this in my system ?

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WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:

media-libs/freetype:2

  (media-libs/freetype-2.10.4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="X adobe-cff bzip2 cleartype_hinting harfbuzz png -bindist -brotli -debug -doc -fontforge (-infinality) -static-libs -utils" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" conflicts with
    media-libs/freetype:2[infinality] required by (media-libs/fontconfig-ultimate-2015.08.01:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)"
                          ^^^^^^^^^^ 
    media-libs/freetype:2[infinality] required by (media-libs/fontconfig-infinality-20130404:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="nyx" ABI_X86="(64)"
                          ^^^^^^^^^^ 
    media-libs/freetype[infinality] required by (app-eselect/eselect-lcdfilter-2:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)"
                        ^^^^^^^^^^ 


!!! Problems have been detected with your world file
!!! Please run emaint --check world


!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
media-fonts/fonts-meta

!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- media-libs/fontconfig-ultimate-2015.08.01::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (2021-03-27)
# Dead upstream. Bugs #437056, #453964, #550592, #768303
# Removal on 2021-04-26.

- app-eselect/eselect-infinality-1.1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
- media-libs/fontconfig-infinality-20130404::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
- app-eselect/eselect-lcdfilter-2::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

Haraldpeter

[fedeliallalinea]

Or try an alternative

[Haraldpeter]

Hi, i tested a lot of configurations on a cloned gentoo system but nothing works so good as infinality does for me.

Best Regards

Haraldpeter

[Tony0945]

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_ebuild_repository

You'll need about three or four packages in your overlay, one of them an eselect

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app-eselect/eselect-infinality::oldgentoo
app-eselect/eselect-lcdfilter::oldgentoo
lxde-base/lxappearance::oldgentoo
media-libs/fontconfig-ultimate::oldgentoo
media-libs/fontconfig-infinality::oldgentoo

"oldgentoo" is the name of mine.
The hard part is creating the overlay and .repo The ebuilds can just be copied, along with files .xml etc. from portage before they disappear. It's a harder job after they disappear.