Re: [gentoo-user] dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

[Alan Mckinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:23 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote:
> Thanks Alan!
> 
> That fixed it.  I never saw that one in the Gentoo handbook or in the
> emerge or portage man pages.

That's because it's buried deep :-)

It's in man 5 portage under the section 'package.keywords' in the
'additional note'. The clue to when you need to use it is the error
message that said "missing keyword"

alan

> 
> Pete
> 
> On 8/15/06, Alan Mckinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:42 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote:
>         > Hi All
>         >
>         > Havinbg a bit of a strange problem - an emerge -puD world is
>         producing
>         > the following error.  I have tried putting it in
>         package.keywords with
>         > the following ~x86, ~* and *  and none of them worked.  Any
>         advice?
>         
>         use the "-*" keyword in package.keywords
>         
>         alan
>         
>         
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> Pete Pardoe

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