* Re: FW: [gentoo-dev] Portage quibbles
@ 2003-03-25 13:44 99% ` Dhruba Bandopadhyay
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From: Dhruba Bandopadhyay @ 2003-03-25 13:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Todd Wright; +Cc: Gentoo Dev
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 03:21, Todd Wright wrote:
> If you install a package (such as mplayer) by emerging one of its
> successors (ie the plugins) you are asking for trouble. If you want
> mplayer it should be emerged on its own then emerge the plugin
> seperately. Even if a package is merged automatically as a dependancy
> of another larger package, (as in the case of evolution/mozilla) there
> is nothing stopping you from manually adding a package to the world
> file, and I would think that occasional edits to a config file (such
> as the world file) are to be expected in a unix-like environment....
> or am I missing the point?
I tried adding mozilla to world file but it isn't the same as emerging
mozilla on its own and still gets downgraded.
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