in the ebuild, there is a misfiled dependency; I commented out the gnome-control-center dep manually and have had no problems with gdkxft (including those described on other bugs, forums, etc.).
This is masked because it has "issues" with software, its crash prone and isn't updated to Xft-2 the way our maintained packages are. I'm not inclined to fixing the package, the mask should remain (I once did the mistake of unmasking this and got hell and burning legions of bugs after me. I dont want that again ;)
I see.... Yes after a while now i began to see bugs with Fidelio and Phoenix. All I had to do was set LD_PRELOAD="" when launching those. Anyways, all works well without the gnome-control-center, as it *is* a misfiled dependency. This has been confirmed with several others. Thank for your update, and as long as you keep it in the portage tree I'm more than happy, but if you could still remove the misfiled dependency in the ebuild that'd be wonderful.
should look into it sometime.. when im bugs short ;)
All that should be necessary is a one-line edit on the ebuild - I remove the gnome-control-center dependency and it worked.
No.. this package has some borkage and is unsupported, do note. Another fact is that it -does- install a gnome-control-center applet for the configuration of fonts. this is a gnomecc one and so it should depend on the old version. I will not touch this.
db fix
