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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ephemeral keyword override?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:04:39
Message-Id: 20171004000424.36a4c650@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: ephemeral keyword override? by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:00:13 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2
3 > > > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='<=some-cat/some-package-9999 ~amd64' \
4 > > > > > USE='foo' emerge -p some-cat/some-package
5 > > > >
6 > > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge somepkg
7 > >
8 > > You included the package atom on the env var, al la
9 > > /etc/portage/package.* syntax, which you should have included only the
10 > > setting.
11 >
12 > The difference is that in my hypothetical syntax, the unfiltering is
13 > scoped _only_ to the specific package I am installing, and not to any of
14 > the dependencies. I should have said so explicitly, sorry for that.
15
16 The ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable doesn't work like that, any more than USE
17 does. It only contains the keywords to accept. To do what you want, use
18 package.accept_keywords.
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22 Neil Bothwick
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