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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ephemeral keyword override?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:51:56
Message-Id: 20171003175142.6f079643@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ephemeral keyword override? by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:03:06 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2
3 > When I'm thinking about installing a package, I can say
4 >
5 > USE='foo' emerge -p some-cat/some-package
6 >
7 > to see what would happen, without changing any /etc files. Is there a
8 > similar way to specify a keyword override, without changing
9 > /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords? Something along the lines of
10 >
11 > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='<=some-cat/some-package-9999 ~amd64' \
12 > USE='foo' emerge -p some-cat/some-package
13
14 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge somepkg
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16
17 --
18 Neil Bothwick
19
20 Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!!

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