Tried to emerge gnome 2 per the instructions that Spider gave on mailing lists, etc. Got all the way to /control-center-1.4.0.5 and got the following:: checking for IMLIB - version >= 1.8.2... yes checking for gnome-vfs library >= 0.9... ./configure: gnome-vfs-config: command not found ./configure: gnome-vfs-config: command not found configure: error: Did not find gnome-vfs installed !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function src_compile, Line 17, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/gnome-base/control-center I have kernel linux 2.4.19-gentoo-r5 Compiler 2.95.3 20010315 (releasecontrol-center-1.4.0.5.ebuild . Any more info needed just let me know.
okay, did you forget to unmask control-center perhaps? I'd guess that's whats happening here really, since "gnome-vfs-config" is part of the check for gnome-vfs >= 0.9 , and all gnome2 packages use "pkg-config" to get version information.
Went back and checked for a un#ed control-center. Yep, my bad. Thanks for the quick help.