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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> I cheat and just do this: |
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> x11-wm/enlightenment * ~* ** |
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Does not work for xz-utils. Neil's post may be the reason, |
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but there is definately nothing I've read (in man pages) |
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to distinguish these anomalous cases....? |
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> But enlightenment is a special case. e17 has never had a release (snapshots |
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> that are known to build are not considered releases) and the majority of users |
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> simply check out and build the latest commits in svn. The way the ebuilds are |
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> versioned, enlightenment-9999 gets you the latest in svn. |
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> That's a pretty normal gentoo convention |
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> You need to put a mask after the package name - *, ~* or **. The default is to |
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> use your current ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. |
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> * removes masking keywords if the package is stable on your arch |
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> ~* removes masking keywords if the package is stable on any arch |
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> ** removes masking keywords for the package unconditionally |
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none of these worked for the |
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xz-utils package. Can we find a simple example that does work? |
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(not enlightenment).....? |
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James |