Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > > The only way in which I'm not yet as convinced as you are is with > respect to dependencies. I'm comfortable with the idea that I browse > the bugs to verify that none of the issues affect my install directly - > then to accept an unstable version of a specific package... but I'd > prefer not to have to dig out the package dependencies and explicitly > allow the unstable branch for those packages too (as seems to have been > indicated earlier in this thread.) Is there a simple way to say, for > example, "I'm willing to accept the unstable version of > Subversion-1.2.1, and (naturally) the unstable version of any package on > which Suversion-1.2.1 depends?" It was my wish to side-step explicitly > dealing with package dependencies which prompted me to use > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS with emerge -uD ... > > Steve > > >
Roy has created a perl script called unmask.pl which automatically unmasks keyword masked dependencies: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=111472741321054 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
