Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

[Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net>]

On 11/2/2009 3:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>   
>> Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that did
>> the trick.
>>
>> Marcus
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>
> You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the
> two packages get marked stable before some other new ~arch version
> comes out. If that happens, and it often does in my experience, then
> you can remove the two packages from portage.keywords and you're back
> to running stable.
>
> In general I tend to have 4 or 5 packages in package.keywords at any
> given time. I don't have too much trouble. Watch out if the list
> starts getting large though as things get messy and you'll find
> yourself doing more updates than maybe you want to be doing.
>
> good luck,
> Mark
>   
Thanks for the tip and the help, I'll make sure to keep that list short. 
The only program I have this kind problem with is firefox, though, with 
everything else I can get by with an older version. It's really becuase 
Mozilla doesn't really support the older versions. Oh well, it will be 
fixed eventually.

Marcus