Portage/Help

This is a collection of resources to help folks struggling with Portage in some form:

• Java unmasking
• Maintaining a Gentoo system
• Migrating to new repository data locations
• Portage niceness
• Upgrade went wrong
  • Blockers
  • Circular dependencies
  • Understanding REQUIRED_USE
  • Ruby dependency conflicts
  • Slot conflicts
  • Upgrading Portage

See also

/etc/portage/package.accept_keyword vs ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - Advice on when and when not to switch to ~ARCH