[gentoo-user] Re: ephemeral keyword override?

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2017-10-03 17:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> > When I'm thinking about installing a package, I can say
> >
> > USE='foo' emerge -p some-cat/some-package
> >
> > to see what would happen, without changing any /etc files.  Is there a
> > similar way to specify a keyword override, without changing
> > /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords?  Something along the lines of
> >
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='<=some-cat/some-package-9999 ~amd64' \
> > USE='foo' emerge -p some-cat/some-package
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge somepkg

Thanks for the reply, I did learn something new from it.  Nonetheless it
should be quite obvious that it does something different from what I was
"dreaming".

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