On Friday 23 January 2009 12:06:43 Damian wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 23 January 2009 11:11:18 Damian wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to > >> mask the package? > >> > >> The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I > >> cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using > >> ~x86 even though my system is amd64? > > > > The ebuild has this: > > > > $ grep KEYWORDS amarok-2.0.1.1.ebuild > > KEYWORDS="~x86" > > > > So it's not even tested on amd64. The answer is in 'man portage': > > Thanks Alan.
I almost forgot - trying to emerge amarok2.0.1.1 is almost guaranteed to fail due to the amarok devs have no clue as to how mysql is built, plus other errors: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238487 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250870 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
