From: Alex <alex.tsr@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:17:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508291317.50198.alex.tsr@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4312DB13.6050102@gmail.com>
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On Monday 29 August 2005 09:53, Nagatoro wrote:
> In my mind that means just that; as long as someother package doesn't
> _need_ a newer version portage will ignore all versions of the
> provided package.
Yup, so you would only need to change the version of the package in
packages.provided to a newer one only if you see it pulled as a dependency.
Just enter the latest version available in portage and you should be ok for a
long time :)
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Cheers, Alex.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-29 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 2:18 [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone Harry Putnam
2005-08-29 12:06 ` Alex
2005-08-29 9:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2005-08-29 9:53 ` Nagatoro
2005-08-29 13:17 ` Alex [this message]
2005-08-29 18:22 ` Neil Bothwick
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