Too many ebuilds are masked, here is my use flags :

[bleakcabal]

Too many ebuilds are masked, here is my use flags in make.conf. I don't have gnome installed and I followed the faq on use flags while building my make.conf file.

USE="-berkdb -3dnow -gnome cdr cups slp dga opengl fbcon qtmt gtk gtk2 motif gtkhtml tcltk aalib imlib svga jpeg mpeg quicktime alsa oss dvd xmms oggvorbis mozirc spell truetype xml pdflib java perl python -gdbm samba kde arts sdl zlib"


I tried changing it to :

USE="cdr cups slp dga opengl fbcon qtmt gtk gtk2 motif gtkhtml tcltk aalib imlib svga jpeg mpeg quicktime alsa oss dvd xmms oggvorbis mozirc spell truetype xml pdflib java perl python samba kde arts sdl zlib"

In other words removing the minus flags : -berkdb -3dnow -gnome -gdbm

But that didn't do no good. What should a good make.conf file look like so that I don't get a lot of masked ebuilds.

[Matje]

Masked ebuilds are masked because developers mask it. It has nothing to do with your USE variables. If you want to unmask the masked ebuilds you should add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to your /etc/make.conf. Be aware that this may brake stuff. If you want to emerge just one masked package, do: