On 27/11/17 18:44, Christopher Head wrote: > For those of us who run mostly stable systems, there is one question I don’t > know a good answer to. > > If I add a specific version of a game to package.accept_keywords, I will get > that version forever. That’s not really what I want: I prefer to stay up to > date as new versions are packaged. > > If I add just a cat/pkg to p.a_k, Portage will always try to pull in the > latest version. If that version has some unstable dependencies which I > haven’t also accepted, Portage will yell at me. An example of this is > games-emulation/mednafen-0.9.46 depending on dev-libs/lzo-2.10, the latter of > which is unstable. > > What I really want to install is, “the latest version of the package that > doesn’t pull in any deps that aren’t available (stable or accepted),” but I > don’t know any way to tell Portage that. Am I missing something, or is that > indeed impossible? Sounds to me a failure in adhering to the stabilisation criterion that state that all deps must be stabilised FIRST .. as the bugzilla stable-bot will now automagically check ...
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