Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net> wrote:
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>  Hello,
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>  Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you
>  choose to put "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64" in your make.conf file?  I have had my
>  system break, twice now, from a package upgrade - I think that one of the
>  culprits is gawk, but can't be certain.
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>  I do know that the only way to fix the problem was to restore from backup, or
>  to try re-installing again.  I just want to know which packages are so unstable
>  that I should mask them.  TIA.
>
>  Regards,
>  Chris
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Hi Chris,
   I don't think your question can be answered as phrased.

   *Any* package marked with '~' is 'new', 'in testing', 'unstable',
etc. Very few (in my experience) 'break' my machine, but I have a rule
that any package energed as part of emerge system must be stable and I
personally add ~x86 or ~amd64 only for specific packages that I want
or need some new feature.

Hope this helps,
Mark
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