On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:33:11 +0300 Erik S. Johansen wrote: > When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u --nodeps packagename > > You'd ofcourse have to do > emerge -up packagename > first, in order to verify that you have all the dependancies of the > stable package installed. Odds are that the unstable depends on the > same packages and that the --nodeps emerge will work just fine.
Please don't use -u with single packages unless you're sure you know what you're doing. The description is a bit irritating, you can update a package without -u as it is for updating dependencies (and --deep is for 2nd level dependencies). So -u --nodeps is really pointless. Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
