After realizing that most packages I was installing, I used package.keywords and ~amd64, so I went ahead and jumped---I have started using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for ~amd64 in /etc/make.conf . I think most of the inconsistencies have been ironed out, but it has taken some days. One glaring problem involves ruby. I need texlive, and I want to install texlive 2011, and I had installed it; however, now ruby is standing in my way.
On bugs.gentoo.org, I see some solutions, involving patches. One is a patch for ruby (dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p352 ). The other is a patch for glibc 2.14.1 . I'm not sure how to handle this, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to mess around with a personal overlay of glibc. Now, unfortunately, after an emerge -avuD world, I have also run emerge --depclean, which cleared out every package involved with texlive. I think texlive-pictures-2011 and texlive-science-2001, possible also others, are depending on ruby. I could also not find an accessible and up to date explanation of installing texlive. Can any one guide me towards understanding how to proceed? I would rather not spend the next week re-installing my system. Perhaps I should back out of ~amd64 to amd64? Thanks, Alan Davis
