I have to use Lotus Notes... Unfortunately. It's a good overall tool, and mail client, but I don't like it... Anyway but I have to use it.

I don't use Microsoft Windows at work anymore. I have a gentoo box which handles everything that I need, very efficiently. But I needed to use Lotus Notes...

There are millions of Howto's on the web on using Lotus Notes on wine. And I followed one (or any) of them. It really works. Well, for some emails... I had crashes every once in a while, or maybe 10-20 times a day!!!! So it wasn't efficient at all...

As of writing, gentoo marks wine-0.9.22 as stable. And I was using an unstable wine release (0.9.28). I read some discussions on the bug 6376 where people had similar incidents when they upgraded from wine 0.9.21 to wine 0.9.22 (hello!)

I decided to downgrade to 0.9.21 by adding "=app-emulation/wine-0.9.21" to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but portage insisted that I should use wine 0.9.22!

So nice folks in #gentoo @ irc.freenode.org told me to mask everything higher than latest stable by adding ">=app-emulation/wine-0.9.22" to /etc/portage/package.mask