On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:52 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> A questions though. Just because an app is not tested on AMD64, and
> hence not keyworded with amd64 or ~amd64, doesn't mean it has a
> problem, does it? It just means it's not tested, right? Or am I
> incorrect in that?

Sure, but you it depends if you want to make all x86 (but not amd64 or
~amd64) apps available. My personal preference is to clone the ebuilds
of stuff I want to try that hasn't got an amd keyword of one sort or
another into my overlay directory and then build them. This means my
systems is:

* mainly stable amd64 packages
* with a selection of ~amd64 packages (via package.keywords)
* with a few cloned/overlayed x86 only builds manually editied to be
~amd64

Hopefully this stops you whole system being pulled into an unstable
state.

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