Yes I'm lazy and going to top post.

world will take quite a few modifiers so maybe you want something like 
=>net-www/apache-2.0.44 although since .44 is in you could do 
>net-www/apache-2.0.44.

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:01:12 -0800
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> For my part, I only want the ~86 builds for specific packages (at this point, Apache 
>2.0.44 is the only one.)  I decided to change the "net-www/apache" line in my world 
>file to "=net-www/apache-2.0.44", which had the desired side effect of excluding 
>apache from the "emerge -up world" report (previously, this always wanted to 
>downgrade to 1.3.27.)  I think that's a solution I can live with for now, but the 
>downside is I won't be alerted by "emerge -up world" when 2.0.45 makes it in to 
>portage.  I'm not really sure what the best way to handle this is; perhaps what I 
>really want is ">net-www/apache-2"?
> 
> Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:44 am
> Subject: [gentoo-user] suggession for gentoo, ~x86-nosystem
> 
> > Hi Gentoo-user,
> > First of all thank you for all the good work, I tried both redhat-
> > 8 and
> > linux-from-scratch, but gentoo was the thing I was looking for.
> > 
> > In last few days there was a discussion on the comparison of 
> > whether to
> > use ~x86 or not in the make.conf.
> > 
> > It seemed like most people wouldnt want to play with the essential
> > system components too soon.. I feel the same. I was wondering if we
> > could add a keyword like ~x86-nosystem which would allow the ~x86 
> > maskedpackages from world which are not part of system.
> > 
> > Does this sound practical? I cannot think of the problems that could
> > possiby occure due to this. 
> > I would appreciate +ve/-ve feedback ideas/happiness/dissappointments
> > about this
> > Thanx
> > Spundun
> > ps: sorry for the bulk of spelling mistakes in my last mail.
> > 
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