Often you have to install masked.....

gerard27

to have something work.
I switched to kde-4 from kde-3.5.
In order to do this cleanly I made a new install.
(my /home is on a separate partition)
Left out a lot of progs I once installed to try and never used later.
Of course I unmasked kde-4.3.4 to have it install.
Today I wanted to use "rawstudio",fired it up but I couldn't get it
to load raw images or anything else for that matter.
The version was 1.1.1-r1.
In desperation I unmasked the next version 1.2.
For good measure I also unmasked "dcraw" and installed 8.98-r1 over 8.73.
(I use a Panasonic lumix dmc fz28 which isn't supported yet by a lot of raw conversion software)
Restarted rawstudio and bingo running like it should.
So far no problems;makes me wonder why are they masked?
Gerard.
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To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download

SamuliSuominen

SamuliSuominen · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:34 pm Post subject:

gerard27 · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply.
The date for rawstudio-1.2 is aug 8.
For dcraw it's dec 14.
So for the latter I can understand,but not for rawstudio.
I'll check the links you supplied.
Thanks again.
Gerard.
_________________
To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download

AllenJB · Veteran Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 1285

Manpower.

There's simply not enough manpower to keep every package in the tree right up-to-date, especially when it comes to stabilization. As such, many libraries only get considered for stabilizing new versions when a new version of something that depends on them needs a newer version of the library, or a bug crops up that is fixed in a newer version.

d2_racing · Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject:

In fact, look are the Gnome Gentoo team, they are 8 devs but actually there is only 4 devs that are active right now. I know 1/4 of the Gentoo Gnome team, so yes we really need more manpower.