Hi Bret, take a look at man portage.
You might want to use /etc/portage/package.keywords. William On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:12:29PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I thought about -i but would like to find another way - if there is one. > Maybe portage-ng will fix a lot of this. > > > Jerry McBride wrote: > >On Sunday 08 February 2004 05:25 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > >>I use the -D to keep dependencies updated. I'd use the -U if it worked. > >>So my question remains - a) can I tell portage to realize that the alsa > >>stuff I have installed is okay - is it possible and b) how do I get -U > >>to work also. > >> > > > >I know I'll get flamed for this... but in my humble opinion portage has > >some serious bugs in it still. Along with your malfunctioning -U switch, > >I've seen any number of odd behavours from it. Seeing all the increments > >in the portage tree, maybe this will all be fixed one day soon. That > >aside, I just "emerge -i " the offending ebuild and I'm never bothered for > >it again... Untill the next broken ebuild is tossed into portage, that > >is...... > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
