On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:30:16 +0100
Jordan Elver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was wondering how I can handle the merging of ~x86 packages. For
> example, I wanted to install opera 7 which is unstable, so I did:
> 
>       KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge opera
> 
> Which gave the desired result. The problem now though is that
> everytime I do an emerge world it wants to downgrade opera to version
> 6. How can I tell portage that I want to keep ~x86 versions of certain
> packages? I have the same problem with apache (but the other way
> around) as I want to keep apache1 but emerge insists on upgrading to
> 2.
> 
I think that using emerge world -U as opposed to -u will prevent the
downgrading of opera for you. -U will only upgrade packages.

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