I don't know about the rest of us, but the last thing I want to do is feed
extra switches into emerge each time I do an update. Shame emerge can't keep
track of previous switches and offer to use them again during future
updates...
Nah! Just inject the sucker and forget about it....
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:52 pm, William Hubbs wrote:
> Hi Bret,
>
> take a look at man portage.
>
> You might want to use /etc/portage/package.keywords.
>
> William
>
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:12:29PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > I thought about -i but would like to find another way - if there is one.
> > Maybe portage-ng will fix a lot of this.
> >
> > Jerry McBride wrote:
> > >On Sunday 08 February 2004 05:25 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > >>I use the -D to keep dependencies updated. I'd use the -U if it
> > >> worked. So my question remains - a) can I tell portage to realize that
> > >> the alsa stuff I have installed is okay - is it possible and b) how do
> > >> I get -U to work also.
> > >
> > >I know I'll get flamed for this... but in my humble opinion portage has
> > >some serious bugs in it still. Along with your malfunctioning -U switch,
> > >I've seen any number of odd behavours from it. Seeing all the
> > > increments in the portage tree, maybe this will all be fixed one day
> > > soon. That aside, I just "emerge -i " the offending ebuild and I'm
> > > never bothered for it again... Untill the next broken ebuild is tossed
> > > into portage, that is......
> >
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