On Friday 24 April 2009 12:04:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:14:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would > > have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in > > installing, or build an amd64 system and only then add ~amd64 to > > make.conf. > > Set it as soon as possible; ideally during the initial installation but > right after the first boot at the latest. Then do emerge -uavDN world > before you touch anything else. > > Doing it straight after the stage 3 unpack means you won't have to > install, configure and compile a stable kernel, then repeat the whole > process when you switch keywords. The same applies to changing USE flags.
Thanks Neil, and Alan too. -- Rgds Peter
