Howdy,
    Well, actually, yes, in a way.  The other confusion was what, exactly, I 
needed to put into the package.keywords file.  Depend atoms can apparently 
be of several somewhat specific formats, and I wasn't sure which applied in 
that case.  I'm refering to the ability to specify specific versions, 
specific versions or greater, etc.
Thanks,
Zack.

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From: "William Hubbs" <williamh@g.o>
To: <gentoo-accessibility@g.o>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] out-of-date ebuilds?


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> Hi Zack,
>
> the ebuild version numbers are the same as the version numbers of the
> packages, unless there is a gentoo specific revision number attached.
> The gentoo revision number would be a "-r" followed by a number at the
> end of the version number, such as emacspeak-25-r2.
>
> Is that the thing that was confusing you about our ebuild version
> numbers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
>
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:10:08PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    I was familiar with this process, just didn't think it applied to 
>> these
>> particular packages.  The ebuild version specification system is a bit
>> tough to get used to: version numbers in particular.
>> Thanks!
>> Zack.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "William Hubbs" <williamh@g.o>
>> To: <gentoo-accessibility@g.o>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] out-of-date ebuilds?
>>
>>
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>> >Hi Zack,
>> >
>> >first off, are you  familiar with the masked packages and how to use
>> >them?  Some of the packages you want might not be marked stable yet.
>> >
>> >Basically, if you want to use something that isn't stable,  you can do
>> >something like this:
>> >
>> >echo app-accessibility/emacspeak >> /etc/portage/package.mask
>> >
>> >You can substitute any other package you want to use for
>> >app-accessibility/emacspeak, it was just an example.  If there are new
>> >versions of packages that you know about that are not in the tree, you
>> >can file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump for
>> >the package.
>> >
>> >The way to get things moved to stable is to use them and report problems
>> >to the bugzilla address I gave above.  If packages do not have bugs
>> >open, they will eventually be marked stable.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >William
>> >
>> >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:56:19PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> >>Hello,
>> >>    (For some reason my emails to the list haven't been getting through
>> >>using my old address, so I subscribed this one...)
>> >>I've noticed that several accessibility-related ebuilds are out of sync
>> >>with the latest available from the upstream sources.  Orca comes to 
>> >>mind,
>> >>as does Emacspeak and Speechd-El.  I'm not terribly familiar with the
>> >>Gentoo ebuild creation process, nor with who, if anyone, is supposed to
>> >>maintain these.  I do notice, for instance, that Orca is at 2.1 
>> >>upstream
>> >>and 1.00 here.  I don't want to fall behind, if possible, in terms of
>> >>features and such.
>> >>Is this an issue which I should report elsewhere?  Should I try to make
>> >>ebuilds for these packages myself?
>> >>Thanks much,
>> >>Zack.
>> >>
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>> >gentoo accessibility team lead
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