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

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