emerge complaining about keyword change and license change

[Omead]

Hi. When I try to install skype I get the following error

[John R. Graham]

Omead,

It's all explained in the Portage Introduction chapter of the Handbook. If you have specific questions about the material you find there, then go ahead and ask.

- John
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I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters.

[DanneStrat]

There are two things you need to do if you want to emerge that package.
Notice how skype is prepended with a tilde sign (~). This indicates that the package is currently in the testing branch. Also notice the packages it depends on are all in the stable branch (no tilde). A general recommendation is to not mix software branches, but since all the dependencies the package needs are in stable branch, you can pull in this version of skype without problems.

First you need to accept the ~amd64 keyword for skype so that it becomes available in your current branch:

[Omead]

[John R. Graham]

Depends on the amount of risk / instability you are willing to tolerate. All the ~arch packages are supposed to work for some developer's configuration but, since your configuration is probably different than the developers, then you may encounter (usually minor) problems. Now, skype is an unusual case. Because (I believe) it's commercial binary only software, it's left in ~arch kind of as a matter of principle, because it's not possible to evaluate for security vulnerabilities or effectively debug.

- John
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I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters.

[Omead]

Thank you John.

[aharel]

Thanks DanneStrat, that worked!

So simple, but I got confused along the way. Mostly because