Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:27:45PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:20:01PM -0700, drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
> : On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:13:36PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> : 
> : > If a package provides for example virtual/mta, does it work to add
> : > !virtual/mta to RDEPEND to prevent installation of duplicate mta's ?
> : 
> : !virtual/mta should be added to RDEPEND (for package installs) and DEPEND (for
> : ebuild merges).  It should work (hasn't been tested yet).  I don't think it
> : should be automatically added by Portage, but should be specified by the ebuild
> : maintainer.  Jerry, could you make these two fixes to qmail, exim and postfix?
> : 
> : Best Regards,
> 
> Okay, quick question.  Should the syntax be:
> 
> DEPEND="!=virtual/mta"
> 
> or:
> 
> DEPEND="!virtual/mta" 

!virtual/mta, as I wrote in the previous email.

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