> ->> I think the proper way to emerge a masked package is (eg.):
> ->>
> ->> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia
> ->>
> ->> This temporarily changes what emerge accepts, rather than 
> forcing or
> ->> changing anything.
> ->>

> ->Thanks for the tip! I'm going to try that right now :)
> ->

> The only problem w/ that, is every time you try to emerge -u(p) 
> world, it
> will try to downgrade the package.

My preferred method is to emerge the ebuild file itself:

  emerge /usr/portage/somedir/mypackage-x.y.z.ebuild

Then edit the /var/cache/edb/world file and change

  somedir/mypackage

to

  >=somedir/mypackage-x.y.z

Works great.

Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED]





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