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Old 02-21-2008, 11:31 AM
Paul Colquhoun
 
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Default Re: Emerge and firefox, enabling the unstable branch in portage

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:48:59 +0200, Cedrik <boussier.cedrik@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
| Eggert Ehmke a écrit :
|
|> [...]
|
| Yes. Put this into your /etc/portage/package.keywords file:
|> #firefox
|> dev-libs/nss ~x86
|> www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86
|>
| Hi,
| is there a difference between doing what you said and editing the
| /etc/make.conf file to add this new line ?
| ACCEPT_KEYWORDS "~x86"


Yes. Using /etc/portage/package.keywords just allows the testing
version of the listed packages. Using /etc/make.conf is a global
stable/testing switch.


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