[gentoo-user] want to ditch kopete

[gentoo-user] want to ditch kopete

[Roy Wright]

Howdy,

~x86, kde user.  kopete-3.5.5-r1 will not compile.  Already a bug report
on it.
I'd like to just ignore this version instead of having it fail every
time I run an update.
I don't use kopete so don't really care about it.
Tried unmerging it.  Update world insists on reinstalling it.  Tried
package.masking
it, now it blocks update world.
Any other tricks to ditch this dog?

TIA,
Roy

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Re: [gentoo-user] want to ditch kopete

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:35:28 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:

> I don't use kopete so don't really care about it.
> Tried unmerging it.  Update world insists on reinstalling it.  Tried
> package.masking
> it, now it blocks update world.
> Any other tricks to ditch this dog?

If you are using the split ebuilds, you have installed a meta package
that contains it. either unmerge the metapackage and emerge the programs
you want, or do

echo "kde-base/kopete-3.5.5-r1" >>/etc/portage/profile/package.provided 


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Re: [gentoo-user] want to ditch kopete

[Neil Hodges]

Hello,

I've been using Gaim 2.0.0_rc3 (some `r' version I can't recall) for
some time, due to Kopete's compilation issues.

I also hope Kopete will be fixed.

- Neil

On 13:35 Wed 18 Oct     , Roy Wright wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> ~x86, kde user.  kopete-3.5.5-r1 will not compile.  Already a bug report
> on it.
> I'd like to just ignore this version instead of having it fail every
> time I run an update.
> I don't use kopete so don't really care about it.
> Tried unmerging it.  Update world insists on reinstalling it.  Tried
> package.masking
> it, now it blocks update world.
> Any other tricks to ditch this dog?
> 
> TIA,
> Roy
> 
> -- 
> 
> ruby -e 'puts "qnxv?bhrbn-bnl".tr(" -}","!-~")'
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Re: [gentoo-user] want to ditch kopete

[Roy Wright]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:35:28 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
>   
> If you are using the split ebuilds, you have installed a meta package
> that contains it. either unmerge the metapackage and emerge the programs
> you want, or do
>
> echo "kde-base/kopete-3.5.5-r1" >>/etc/portage/profile/package.provided 
>
>   
The later did the job!  Thank you!

Now to look up package.provided to understand what I did... :-)

Thank you,
Roy

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[gentoo-user] Re: want to ditch kopete

[Harm Geerts]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 02:25, b.n. wrote:
> > Now to look up package.provided to understand what I did... :-)
>
> You tricking Portage into believing that you already have Kopete, even
> if it isn't true...
>
> Use at your own risk :)

Yeah that's one of those features that sneaks up from behind and bites you in 
the ass at some point in the future.

So to point it out once more, this is a workaround!
It doesn't solve the problem, it only hides it!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: want to ditch kopete

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:29:47 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:

> So to point it out once more, this is a workaround!
> It doesn't solve the problem, it only hides it!

Agreed, my first suggestion was the correct solution, but this is
far less work. I use it to stop kdebase-meta bringing in kpersonalizer.


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Re: [gentoo-user] want to ditch kopete

[b.n.]

> Now to look up package.provided to understand what I did... :-)

You tricking Portage into believing that you already have Kopete, even 
if it isn't true...

Use at your own risk :)

m.

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