051218 Holly Bostick wrote: > Do *not* use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line > except for an explicit 'testing' situation. > Either with --pretend, to see what packages are involved, > or for a single/simple unstable package you are not sure you want to keep, > for which Portage's automatic downgrade will not be a problem > (because you've checked and you don't want the package) > or for which you will immediately add the package > to /etc/portage/package.keywords (because you've checked > and you do want to keep the package in its unstable version).
This is true only if you ever do 'emerge world' without a '-p'. I consider 'world' an unsatisfactory feature of Gentoo & never use it except for 'emerge -Dup world' to get an ordering for updates before emerging some of them individually in a weekly session. In .bashrc I have alias emergeu='ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge' which I use occasionally when I don't want to 'WAIT' (tm H Bostick), eg last week when I emerged Galeon 2.0 . Otherwise, I keep a list of all the packages I have installed -- something Gentoo should provide automatically, but 'world' doesn't, & which I made using 'qpkg -I' (also deprecated for some reason) & keep upto-date with Vim as I remerge individual packages -- & use 'esync' once a week, which not only updates the tree, but most helpfully lists all packages which have new versions & colors those among them which I have installed. I then decide which packages deserve to be updated to newer versions (eg yesterday 'man-pages' (system) & 'xpdf' (security)). My solution to NR's original query will be (probably next week) to do a series of 'emergeu kdelibs', 'emergeu kjots' etc or perhaps put groups in lists in 'emergeu' commands. My list of installed packages tells me which ones I need to remerge. Linux is about choice, so everyone do it his/her way, & Gentoo is about control, which is why I choose to do it my way. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
