When dealing with stable (x86) and unstable(~x86) one of the best features which I have only discovered recently (I think it is only recent) is the/etc/portage/package.keywords file.
I run a x86 base system but there are always packages that I want that are currently marked ~x86 - so I just populate the package.keywords file with these packages and everything else works fine - it is much better than temporarily changing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to ~x86 because it make sure that you don't install unstable depenency packages if you don't want too.
Incidently, I would recommend gentoo as a brilliant distribution for linux newbies - sure sometimes things go really wrong and you have to start again but I learnt much more in much less time than I ever did with redhat - of course I happen to think the important reasons for using linux is to learn stuff...
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When dealing with stable (x86) and unstable(~x86) one of the best features which I have only discovered recently (I think it is only recent) is the /etc/portage/package.keywords file.
I run a x86 base system but there are always packages that I want that are currently marked ~x86 - so I just populate the package.keywords file with these packages and everything else works fine - it is much better than temporarily changing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to ~x86 because it make sure that you don't install unstable depenency packages if you don't want too.
Incidently, I would recommend gentoo as a brilliant distribution for linux newbies - sure sometimes things go really wrong and you have to start again but I learnt much more in much less time than I ever did with redhat - of course I happen to think the important reasons for using linux is to learn stuff...