On Wednesday 11 February 2004 00.16, gabriel wrote: > On February 10, 2004 06:04 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > OK I have never used the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" before but I wanted > > kde3.2 so I did it with emerge -u kde. All worked well, and in fact I do > > love kde3.2. My problem is that now when I run emerge -u world alot of > > what was upgraded for kde3.2 now wants to be downgraded? What do I do for > > this? I don't think I want to run emerge -u world with the "~x86" cause I > > don't want to break anyhitng on this box? > > you can manually mask/unmask the various packages, but do yourself a > favour: DON'T run a partial ~x86/x86 system. it's just a world of hurt. > seriously, i'm running a full ~x86 system with very few problems, and what > problems i run into, are easily solved with a trip to forums.gentoo.org. > > when your run a half & half system, you're constantly fighting with portage > to mask/unmask various packages every time you do an emerge -uD world.
I don't fully agree here, on of the things I do like about gentoo is the fact that you can run a mostly "stable" system while adding some bleeding edge on the top, It does of course require some more work then running plain x86 or ~x86, since you can't do emerge -uD world, but doing emerge -puDv world and then manually emerging the things that looks interresting is pretty painless. /Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
