Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:43:24
Message-Id: 20050802083850.515805dc@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:58:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2
3 > The problem with using things like USE and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS directly on
4 > the command line is that the next time you go to upgrade that package
5 > or do "emerge -u world", Your package specific USE and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
6 > settings will have been forgotten. You can make them persistent if you
7 > keep them in package.use and package.keywords.
8
9 The other problem is that the keywords apply to the entire command, so
10 any dependencies are also merged with that setting, whereas
11 package.keywords only applies to the specific package.
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14 --
15 Neil Bothwick
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17 C&W music backward: get yer dog, wife, job, truck, kids, and sobriety
18 back.