glen martin schreef: > > As an aside, I wonder whether it is a good feature idea that > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="<keyword>" emerge <foo> without --oneshot should > automatically add <foo> <keyword> to the package.keywords file. >
That's an idea with some merit, but imo not enough (merit) to make it feasible (but it's not my decision; submit a feature request and see what happens). You now know firsthand one of the many reasons that using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line is *not* recommended. It is a temporary setting, useful only for testing situations. The fact that if you use it, then decide to make the testing situation permanent but do not add a permanent setting (in package.keywords), you will encounter problems of this sort underlines the nature of the setting (temporary, temporary, use for explicit testing only; if you want a permanent setting, make one explicitly). The idea of having the temporary setting invisibly add a permanent setting seems cool, but undermines both the function of the temporary setting (since it's no longer truly temporary), and the function of the permanent setting (since you have not explicitly made the setting, you may or may not want it set), and what about dependencies? You'd have to unmask them explicitly (or else you'll get a lot of "thus and so cannot be installed because thus and so is masked" errors, and if you have to do that, you've already destroyed any usefulness an automatic addition might have had. So it's not something for me, but I'm weird ;-) ; others might feel differently. Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
