Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen(bo.andresen@zlin.dk) wrote
 > On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:06:37 John covici wrote:
 > > 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? 
 > 
 > Why don't you just disable the accessibility use flag if you don't
 > want it?
Because I do want orca which is another seech package, but gnopernicus
 is a dead duck now.  Perhaps there should be a virtual speech package
 which orca, lsr could both satisfy.


 > 
 > > 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?
 > 
 > You *can* use package.provided (see `man portage`) but I doubt that epiphany 
 > and yelp will work with it... Personally I'd probably create 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 the
2.0 versions.

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         John Covici
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