On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:00:33 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> > cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 >>/etc/portage/package.keywords 
> > Or make package.keywordsa directory and simply put a copy of the sets
> > file in there (or a symlink to the sets file). This is the more
> > manageable option.  
 
> Interesting approach. I usually like to follow the gentoo recommended
> practices. I get the feeling that "sets" via portage 2.2 is very
> much a work in progress. So which of these approaches is likely
> to become the de'facto method?

The Gentoo approach has always been to handle package.keywords yourself,
autounmask is an unofficial utility. I hope there will be the facility to
add a set to the file in future.

> Also, I omitted the "~amd64" at the end of all of those manual
> entries into my package.keywords file. It work without them.
> So my question is the "-amd64" entry on every line of my
> package.keywords deprecated now with portage 2.2?

It's always been like that (well, for a very long time, at least). If
you don't specify an arch in the file, it uses the testing variant of
whatever you have in make.conf. 


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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