/etc/portage/package.accept keywords

and are files or directories of files containing definitions for per-package   statements. They are useful for mixing unstable packages in with a normally stable system packages or vice versa.

These two locations allow  to be augmented for single packages. If both and  are present, both will be used; values from  will override values from. The location is intended to replace the  location, since profiles support a different form of  which modifies effective  (rather than  ).

Format:


 * Comment lines begin with  (no inline comments)
 * One DEPEND atom per line followed by additional
 * Lines without any imply unstable host arch

Note: In addition to the normal values from   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 ( are ignored completely)

Additional Note: If you encounter the, this indicates that the package is known to be broken on all systems which are not otherwise listed in. For example, a binary only package which is built for will look like:

To accept this package anyway, use one of the other keywords in like this: