Personally, I run stable packages (ie, not ACCEPT_KEYWORDS) when-ever I can.  If I do 
need an unstable package, I usually "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge .."
If you want particular packages to not get changed by emerge -u world, you can either 
remove them from the /var/cache/edb/world file or pin them to a specific version.  I 
don't know if you can pin unstable versions though :)

Personally, if I've installed an unstable package I remove it from my world file & 
manage it in a more manual way - just the price you need to pay :)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:30 a.m.
> To: Linux Users Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Gentoo package upgrade question
> 
> 
> Gentoo users:
> 
> I recently commented out the ACCEPT KEYWORDS line from 
> /etc/make.conf to get
> latest versions of some programmes - Gnucash in particular.
> 
> Today when I ran
> emerge rsync && emerge -up world
> 
> it wanted to go back to earlier versions of some packages
> 
> What do you recommend for the ACCEPT KEYWORDS line?
> 
> Do you think I should leave it uncommented permanently or what?
> 
> Robert
> 

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