From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HPuEk-00039P-Gz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:35:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2A5YCtF029124; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:34:12 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [67.62.15.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2A5UACT024634 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:30:10 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l2A5U6Ik023768 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:30:09 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id l2A5U6gB023759; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:30:06 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <17906.16990.520691.851811@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:30:06 -0500 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit In-Reply-To: <200703100413.04958.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> References: <17906.4781.329117.461003@ccs.covici.com> <200703100337.53931.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <17906.7970.644553.181364@ccs.covici.com> <200703100413.04958.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.50.2 X-Archives-Salt: eec144b8-66aa-4560-8a1b-40e081b50849 X-Archives-Hash: 859ad45f28328c85871193de0498bab3 on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo =D8rsted Andresen(bo.andresen@zlin.dk) wrote > On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:59:46 John covici wrote: > > > > OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a depe= ndency > > > > -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-bas= e -- any > > > > way to fool portage that I have such a thing when I don't=3F > > > > > > Why don't you just disable the accessibility use flag if you don= 't > > > want it=3F > > > > Because I do want orca which is another seech package, but gnopern= icus > > is a dead duck now. Perhaps there should be a virtual speech pac= kage > > which orca, lsr could both satisfy. >=20 > What has orca to do with it=3F Nothing in the tree depends on it. If= you want it=20 > just add it to your world file (see --noreplace in `man emerge`). >=20 > The gnome ebuild is just a meta package (essentially a virtual that = nothing=20 > must depend on directly). It installs nothing itself. So if you want= other=20 > packages that it does depend on with accessibility enabled just add = those to=20 > your world file too... >=20 > > > > Another one is mozilla-firefox I want to use the 3.0 nightly b= uild > > > > compiled from source, can I fool portage into thinking I have > > > > mozilla-2.0 or whatever when I don't have such a beast=3F > > > > > > You *can* use package.provided (see `man portage`) but I doubt t= hat > > > epiphany and yelp will work with it... Personally I'd probably c= reate an > > > ebuild if I really wanted firefox 3 now (which I don't). > > > > I do this because it is supposed to be much more accessible than t= he > > 2.0 versions. >=20 > Accessible=3F Not understood. ;) According to the folks working on orca, they have been working with the Firefox team to make Orca speak the controls properly whereas if I use 2.0 versions, Orca hardly says anything and I can't really use this for web browsing. --=20 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it=3F John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list