From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N53ZW-0005Yq-7h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:32:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12EA6E08CD; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE558E08CD for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091102203213.BJDX6358.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:32:13 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 0LYC1d0085Sa0uU02LYCHP; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:32:12 -0500 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=yso8ofCCMawA:10 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=T6X00IxxzbYBxOuOM9wA:9 a=Yle0tpMs9a5Ff0VwB4YA:7 a=iOL78tuf_yb5S7UnemcyeHLaJiQA:4 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4AEF41CA.8060806@cox.net> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:32:10 -0500 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch? References: <4AEF13DD.9050400@cox.net> <4AEF278C.4090901@kutulu.org> <4AEF315B.9050005@cox.net> <5bdc1c8b0911021211w1dc38c73yefd867ebe37829a1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0911021211w1dc38c73yefd867ebe37829a1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 37b1b575-c6f1-461e-a756-c91ea0965b5b X-Archives-Hash: 32042d4899f69a775a8c1812989c2ecb On 11/2/2009 3:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: > > >> Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that did >> the trick. >> >> Marcus >> >> >> > > 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