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Those of you who use Gentoo Linux and GNOME would be pleased to hear that GNOME 2.8 is no longer hard-masked, at least for x86. There are a bunch of new dependencies below that I had to unmask before I can emerge gnome 2.8. This list is not complete and may differ for your system, if I miss anything below please post in the comments.

dev-libs/libcroco
net-libs/libsoup
dev-util/intltool
gnome-extra/gal
gnome-extra/libgtkhtml
dev-util/desktop-file-utils
x11-libs/pango
gnome-extra/evolution-data-server
app-admin/gnome-system-tools
net-analyzer/gnome-nettool
media-sound/esound
net-misc/vino
x11-libs/libxklavier
gnome-base/libgtop
gnome-extra/evolution-webcal
gnome-base/orbit
dev-libs/libIDL
dev-libs/atk
gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager

I’m compiling right now, and will post an update on it a bit later.

Update: emerge told me that linux-headers and libgtkhtml are blocking, so I removed them and emerged linux26-headers instead since I’m using a 2.6.8 kernel anyway. emerge also wanted to upgrade gettext first before linux(26)-headers but it would fail to compile, so make sure you install linux26-headers first before gettext.

Update: 9:34pm – Finally it finished compiling about an hour ago. I’m now writing this from GNOME 2.8.0 with no problems. I just have to do ‘sudo rc-update add hald default‘ to make hald (and dbus) start at boot/init time. Kudos to the Gentoo GNOME team and the GNOME developers, I’m sure it must have been quite an effort to make it work together and nicely after waiting for quite a while. It was worth the wait for me. I don’t need to write another review of GNOME 2.8, do I? :-)