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I am trying to emerge xorg.
The problem is, that:
emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1.ebuild

prints:

!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-terms/xterm" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- x11-terms/xterm-179 (masked by: ~keyword)
- x11-terms/xterm-184 (masked by: ~keyword)
- x11-terms/xterm-191 (masked by: ~keyword)

How can i find why xorg is masked and how can i install it?

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Maciej Dziardziel wrote:

> Welcome
>
> I am trying to emerge xorg.
> The problem is, that:
> emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1.ebuild
>
> prints:
>
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-terms/xterm" have been masked.
> !!! possible candidates are:
> - x11-terms/xterm-179 (masked by: ~keyword)
> - x11-terms/xterm-184 (masked by: ~keyword)
> - x11-terms/xterm-191 (masked by: ~keyword)
>
> How can i find why xorg is masked and how can i install it?


"man portage" is a good start :-)

Try e.g. to add following to /etc/portage/package.keywords:
x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86
x11-terms/xterm ~x86
x11-base/opengl-update ~x86
media-fonts/corefonts ~x86

But please read the man-page as it gives more details.

So anyway, it was like, 16:06 CEST Jun 27 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Maciej Dziardziel was all like, "Dude,

> Welcome

Thank you.

> I am trying to emerge xorg.
> The problem is, that:
> emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1.ebuild
>
> prints:
>
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-terms/xterm" have been
> masked.

This is telling you that x11-terms/xterm is masked, not xorg.

> How can i find why xorg is masked and how can i install it?

Xorg is masked because it's still considered untested, I guess. If you
want to use it tho, instead of circumventing the masking by manually
merging the ebuild in the way you're trying to do, I'd suggest editing
(or creating) the file "/etc/portage/package.keywords" and adding the
lines

x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86
x11-terms/xterm ~x86

(replace x86 with your architecture if appropriate)

Once you've done that, you should be able to just 'emerge xorg-x11'.

hth.

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Magnus wrote:

> Try e.g. to add following to /etc/portage/package.keywords:

Now it works. Thank you.

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If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

Johan Lindquist enlightened us with:
> Xorg is masked because it's still considered untested, I guess.

Untested, or tested and found unstable. ;-)

Sybren
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