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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:59:07
Message-Id: 7573e9640512151654p21273df9ld792ec9434f64341@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front by reader@newsguy.com
1 On 12/15/05, reader@×××××××.com <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Well you might think all that would be necessary is to keyword either:
3 >
4 > kde-base/kdebase ~x86
5 > kde-base/kde-meta ~x86
6 > kde-base/kde ~x86
7
8 Nope, you have to keyword-accept the dependancies also...
9
10 > What happens is emerge runs into a whole long list of other kde
11 > packages that themselves must also be keyworded. but it only shows
12 > them one at a time. Telling user one package is masked and to read
13 > the manpages to proceed. Having keyworded that one trying to preceed
14 > finds another.... and another..... etc.
15
16 Try:
17
18 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv kde-meta
19
20 The above should tell you all dependant packages that you will need to
21 add to /etc/portage/package.keywords.
22
23 > This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but
24 > after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided
25 > to follow the suggestions, and not do it.
26
27 You don't want to use it without the --pretend option. There is no
28 problem at all with specifying environment variables on the command
29 line just to investigate their effects though.
30
31 -Richard
32
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Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front Chris White <chriswhite@g.o>