On 12/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well you might think all that would be necessary is to keyword either: > > kde-base/kdebase ~x86 > kde-base/kde-meta ~x86 > kde-base/kde ~x86
Nope, you have to keyword-accept the dependancies also... > What happens is emerge runs into a whole long list of other kde > packages that themselves must also be keyworded. but it only shows > them one at a time. Telling user one package is masked and to read > the manpages to proceed. Having keyworded that one trying to preceed > finds another.... and another..... etc. Try: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv kde-meta The above should tell you all dependant packages that you will need to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords. > This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but > after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided > to follow the suggestions, and not do it. You don't want to use it without the --pretend option. There is no problem at all with specifying environment variables on the command line just to investigate their effects though. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list