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 1HPru7-00008c-KK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:05:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2A34Vem013279; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:04:31 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 l2A2xo6n007845 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:59:51 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l2A2xlt8007127 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:59:50 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id l2A2xlGd007118; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:59:47 -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: <17906.7970.644553.181364@ccs.covici.com> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:59:46 -0500 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit In-Reply-To: <200703100337.53931.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> References: <17906.4781.329117.461003@ccs.covici.com> <200703100337.53931.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.50.2 X-Archives-Salt: 97be4bd2-db17-4ed0-9d6d-97da1dbd6933 X-Archives-Hash: 342f4f29a2ef5d33f7232c65a4dacb9c on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo =D8rsted 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 dependen= cy > > -- 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=3F=20 >=20 > 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 gnopernicus is a dead duck now. Perhaps there should be a virtual speech package which orca, lsr could both satisfy. >=20 > > 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 o= r > > whatever when I don't have such a beast=3F >=20 > You *can* use package.provided (see `man portage`) but I doubt that = epiphany=20 > and yelp will work with it... Personally I'd probably create an ebui= ld if I=20 > 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. --=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