[mythtv-users] What flavor of Linux are you using?

Manuel McLure manuel at mclure.org
Mon Nov 23 18:35:23 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.  That's actually a pretty good idea.  However, I'd suggest
> that rather than using the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS approach, it'd be better to
> just put mythtv temporarily in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
>
> With that ACCEPT_KEYWORDS I'd think you'd risk installing unstable
> versions of dependencies, maybe even for qt4 (unless they happen to be
> hard masked).

Good point - that would be a cleaner and safer way of doing it. I wish
there were a way to from the command line tell portage "installed the
keyworded version of this package but don't use the keyword for any
dependencies."
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