On 6/22/09, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Where do I read more and find more of the latest example for > syntax with portage and the different files therein? <snip /> > It should have read: > > 'man portage' does not show the use of the (><=) syntax > within the package.keywords file ?
No, but it instructs one to peek into man 5 ebuild for the info. If you look again at the portage manpage, the section on package.keywords states of the file format: "one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional KEYWORDS" And at the top (Glossary) it says about these atoms: "DEPEND atom A string which matches a package. It is of the form category/package. It may also contain optional logical operators and versions. More reading: ebuild(5)" Follow this "more reading"-hint by entering "man 5 ebuild". The resulting manpage tells you quite extensively (even everything?) about the atoms, with many examples, and more. It takes a meticulous, technically inclined (or otherwise anal-retentive? :) ) mind to read these manpage-thingies which were structured and invented before the modern hypertext-intarweb hit the streets two decades ago. And sure, some of them are written badly, but IMHO the gentoo ones are pretty ok from a user's POV. So, as a conclusion, you probably want to use ~ instead of >= in there as you apparently are running a mostly stable box (arch) instead of testing (~arch)? -- Arttu V.