emerging xfree on amd64

thinkpad20 · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 70

I'm trying to get a badass amd64 gentoo machine working; but there are all of these damn masked packages! I mean, it's all well and good to try to protect me from possibly bad packages, but I need to get something, right? In any case, I want to emerge xfree but it tells me that the package has been masked because of "missing keyword." I read the "MASKED PACKAGES" section in the manual but I didn't find anything.

Can anyone tell me how to get around this masking, and in general how to bypass package masking?

Thanks
-Allen

Mekoryuk · Apprentice Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 174

Read the sticky on the AMD64 forums regarding this. Short answer: Xfree isn't supported on AMD64 any more.

thinkpad20 · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 70

What??

Why would they _remove_ support for xfree? I could see it being in progress, but why would they specifically stop supporting xfree?

What are poor people like me meant to do for a GUI environment, then?

A.B.Haydar · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Portland, OR