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From: Mike Payson <mike@bucky.dawgdayz.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilitylevels and such issues.
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:31:01 -0700
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> > and you need to be able to override the level by specifying a
> > specific version,
>
>   I think this scheme will require you to do either:
>
> PORTAGE_LEVEL=3D"" emerge <foo>
>
>   or
>
> emerge --level=3Dany emerge <foo>
>
>   the first one already works.

How about something like:
  emerge --force foo_1.1beta

with --force (or whatever keyword is chosen) telling it to ignore the=20
currently set stability level & install the particular package specified?=
=20