On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:16:33 -0500 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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.
That may have been the case with portage .49, but in .50 the new package.keywords stuff makes this almost completely painless. The man pages contain full details, but basically .50 supports per-package ACCEPT_KEYWORDS by way of /etc/portage/package.keywords . For example, my mostly-stable ultra10 has: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ciaranm 0 0.99 $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords sys-apps/portage ~sparc x11-base/xfree ~sparc x11-wm/fluxbox ~sparc app-portage/gentoolkit ~sparc app-portage/gentoolkit-dev ~sparc sys-kernel/sparc-dev-sources ~sparc whilst everything else is running at sparc. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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