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 1HPr6I-0005Ts-Jf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:14:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2A2CJf7006893; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:12:19 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2A26nW4032298 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:06:50 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDCE64E46 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:06:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.463 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.463 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.136, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VbMIlRCdYeUx for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [67.62.15.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B739264E01 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l2A26bMe003590 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:06:40 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id l2A26bNE003584; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:06:37 -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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17906.4781.329117.461003@ccs.covici.com> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:06:37 -0500 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.50.2 X-Archives-Salt: 787dc4fd-e9c3-467f-9390-a88cda549d75 X-Archives-Hash: 55418b56d5d386330f1a17ce9069bde8 OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any way to fool portage that I have such a thing when I don't? Another one is mozilla-firefox I want to use the 3.0 nightly build compiled from source, can I fool portage into thinking I have mozilla-2.0 or whatever when I don't have such a beast? Thanks for all your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list