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From: Emiel Kollof <coolvibe <at> hackerheaven.org>
Subject: Portage irk...
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-01-30 13:42:42 GMT (5 years, 31 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours and 27 minutes ago)
Hi folks,

Why is it, when I unmask a package (with a  higher version number than the 
"official one") by using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, portage downgrades it on the next 
emerge -u world to a lower version? This is very irritating behaviour. Can it 
be turned off or disabled somehow?

Of course I can hack it out of portage (or hack something into portage that 
watches version numbers and bypass mask checking), but that's kind of a dirty 
way to do it. 

Any insights?

Cheers,
Emiel 
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