Chris,
Does this apply to you?
ARCH or not?
Gentoo places its packages in two possible stadia called ARCH and ~ARCH.
Don't take this literally: the stadia depend on the architecture you are
using. In other words, for x86-based systems you have x86 and ~x86, for
ppc-based systems you have ppc and ~ppc etc.
The ~ARCH stadium means that the package works for the developer in charge
of the package, but that the package hasn't been tested thoroughly enough by
the community to be placed in ARCH. ~ARCH packages usually go to ARCH after
being bugfree for a sufficient amount of time.
Your system will use ARCH packages per default. If you want to live on the
edge, don't mind having a broken package once in a while, know how to deal
with a broken system and you like submitting bugreports to bugs.gentoo.org,
then you can opt to use ~ARCH packages. To "move" your system to a
~ARCH-using system, edit the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in /etc/make.conf so
that it reads ~ARCH (again: for x86-based systems: ~x86, etc.).
Note though that it is far from trivial (if even impossible) to go back to
ARCH from ~ARCH.
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
How odd, I get:-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] My Downloads $ esearch ^kde$
[ Results for search key : ^kde$ ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* kde-base/kde
Latest version available: 3.2.2
Latest version installed: 3.2.0
Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE 3.2 - merge this to pull in all non-developer
kde-base/* packages
