On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote: > This will probably stir up some flames, but: > > the package.keywords system sucks > > 1. you put things in there and you forget about them > 2. extra work for no user gain over the old system (I know the old > system is broke, but from what I agther it was broken on purpose to > create the package.keyword system.) > 3. more complex than the simple system it replaced - it is now quite > hard to work out the interactions sometimes > 4. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS seems to work well for a half doz or so ~x86 packages > > I will probably have to use them next time I rebuild world with a -e, > but after stuffing things up over a couple of months with the > package.keywords and related files, wasting time trying find whats gone > wrong, I am better off doing the ACCEPT keywords kludge and getting on > with actually using the system. At least when you do an update, you SEE > what is ~x86, not have it hidden away in the depths building up > problems. > > Maybe a bad gentooer, but at least I am happy that I am doing things in > a way that I understand, and works the way I want it to! > > BillK
If you cannot understand or appreciate a simple and very usefull feature like package.keywords, how are you able to use Gentoo at all?! The way you're doing things means that you are not able to use a command like 'emerge -u world' as all ~arch packages will get downgraded. -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
