You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the troublesome
packages?

On 27 March 2011 22:54, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote:
>
> > You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing:
> >
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge --update --deep world
>
> That will update every package to the latest ~x86 version, and cause them
> all to downgrade again the next time you emerge world. As this includes
> packages that are both critical and hate being downgraded, like glibc,
> this is a really bad idea.
>
> You would have to really hate someone to want to put them through this.
>
>
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> Neil Bothwick
>
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