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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:09:55
Message-Id: 20090309230946.2d2cfe44@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2 by James
1 On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:00:33 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
2
3 > > cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
4 > > Or make package.keywordsa directory and simply put a copy of the sets
5 > > file in there (or a symlink to the sets file). This is the more
6 > > manageable option.
7
8 > Interesting approach. I usually like to follow the gentoo recommended
9 > practices. I get the feeling that "sets" via portage 2.2 is very
10 > much a work in progress. So which of these approaches is likely
11 > to become the de'facto method?
12
13 The Gentoo approach has always been to handle package.keywords yourself,
14 autounmask is an unofficial utility. I hope there will be the facility to
15 add a set to the file in future.
16
17 > Also, I omitted the "~amd64" at the end of all of those manual
18 > entries into my package.keywords file. It work without them.
19 > So my question is the "-amd64" entry on every line of my
20 > package.keywords deprecated now with portage 2.2?
21
22 It's always been like that (well, for a very long time, at least). If
23 you don't specify an arch in the file, it uses the testing variant of
24 whatever you have in make.conf.
25
26
27 --
28 Neil Bothwick
29
30 Do you steal taglines too?

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