On Friday 23 January 2009 11:11:18 Damian wrote: > Hello, > > What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to > mask the package? > > The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I > cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using > ~x86 even though my system is amd64?
The ebuild has this: $ grep KEYWORDS amarok-2.0.1.1.ebuild KEYWORDS="~x86" So it's not even tested on amd64. The answer is in 'man portage': Note: In addition to the normal values from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS package.key- words supports three special tokens: * package is visible if it is stable on any architecture ~* package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture ** package is always visible (KEYWORDS are ignored completely) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
