Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:57:27
Message-Id: 20110327225430.16a7cb45@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world by JM
1 On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote:
2
3 > You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing:
4 >
5 > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge --update --deep world
6
7 That will update every package to the latest ~x86 version, and cause them
8 all to downgrade again the next time you emerge world. As this includes
9 packages that are both critical and hate being downgraded, like glibc,
10 this is a really bad idea.
11
12 You would have to really hate someone to want to put them through this.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 "Meow" <SPLAT!> "Woof" <SPLAT!> Jeez, it's really raining today.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world CJoeB <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world JM <jmurray315@××××××××××.com>