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I wanted Bluetooth on my EeePC for mobile connections and therefore wanted to use BT for an external mouse so that I did not have to use 2 usb ports which would be the case if using a standard wireless mouse.

However, I do not always need the mouse (and I have 2 BT mice) as [...]

Installing/Upgrading RPM on Gentoo

It has taken me a ridiculous amount of time to discover the following simple truth…

Since the update of net-misc/neon to 0.28.2 app-arch/rpm must be installed with the ~x86 keyword. This pulls in app-arch/rpm 4.4.6-r5

Without the ~x86 keyword, the emerge will try to compile rpm 4.4.6-r3 which is guranteed to fail.