On Tuesday 02 February 2010 20:53:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Whereas willy-nilly mixing stable and unstable is normally condemned as a > bad idea (with good reason), it generally considered OK with portage for > the above reason. Portage is self-contained, unmasking it doesn't > contaminate the system with legions of other unstable $STUFF
...with the one exception* of a couple of eselect packages, which hardly counts anyway. * Is "a couple" one or two? You decide. -- Rgds Peter.