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Hi Alastair, |
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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Alastair Irving |
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<alastair.irving@×××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> I'm fairly new to gentoo, and was wondering what success people hav had with |
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> firefox 3. I unmasked the relevent ebuild, but this then required a library |
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> which I had to unmask, which then required another masked library. At this |
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> point I stopped, as it looked as though I was going to end up updating a |
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> fairly large number of packages to unstable versions and I was worried this |
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> might break something else on my system. |
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> Any advice will be gratefully received. |
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When I want to try software that requires packages to be unmasked, I |
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unmask only the specific versions required. In my |
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/etc/portage/package.keywords file I then have entries like this: |
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=media-plugins/gst-plugins-opengl-0.10.5 ~x86 |
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=net-analyzer/ntop-3.2-r3 ~x86 |
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# etc... |
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When newer unstable versions of those packages hit the tree, you won't |
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pull them in. |
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I also comment the /etc/portage/package.keywords file which makes it |
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easier to go back and remove all the relevant packages once I'm done |
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playing with a keyworded package. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Mike |
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