Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updating portage, continued
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 12:42:07
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=xs8q41_rwo5_n9cKyi9T2k87+Cxy5PSGoLQsti6BaQQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] updating portage, continued by n952162@web.de
1 On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Next comes this:
4 >
5 > "The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
6 > (see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
7 > # required by sys-devel/crossdev-20171230::gentoo
8 > # required by @selected
9 > # required by @world (argument)
10 > =sys-apps/portage-2.3.67 ~amd64"
11 >
12 >
13 > If I'm understanding correctly, accept_keywords allow experimental and development versions. Why should I need that for something as basic as portage? Is AMD not quite ready for primetime? And, how does portage know? And what happens if I just ignore that? What consequences can I expect?
14 >
15
16 I would not accept this change.
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18 That version of crossdev is no longer in the repo, but it only depends
19 on >=sys-apps/portage-2.1. Any stable version of portage should
20 satisfy that. I'd need more output to figure out what is going on
21 there.
22
23 --
24 Rich