This is not something to be suggested to everyone. It comes with a lot of caveats. If someone wishes to only use an unstable version of one package rather than their whole system on Gentoo, then the advised ways are either to:
"ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86" emerge packagename or go to the directory and emerge packagename. If someone sets ~x86 in make.conf then they will start to get unstable versions of everything everytime they emerge sync; emerge-up world. Please be careful to who you suggest this to. Craig On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 20:07, Benjamin Traut wrote: > Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2003 19:52 schrieb Benjamin Traut > > Hmm, I tried that today and it indicates, that it would like to update > > Scribus to 1.1.1. > > > > Perhaps you could do an emerge sync and retry it. > > > > If this doesn't help, then you could try the following steps: > > > > cd /usr/portage/app-office/scribus > > emerge scribus-1.1.1.ebuild > > Craig Bradney just wrote me, what I have forgotten to tell you (mostly > because I did the change a few weeks ago): > > You have to alter your /etc/make.conf the following way: > > Under Advanced Masking exist an entry: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="whatever_there_were" > > In your case it seems to be commented out. Just delete the # at the > beginning of the line and change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="whatever_there_were" to > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" > > Note that portage might now be aware of many unstable or > development-Versions, so be carefull what you do. > > HTH, > Benjamin.
