From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:37:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703100337.53931.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17906.4781.329117.461003@ccs.covici.com>
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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?
> 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).
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Bo Andresen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-10 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-10 2:06 [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit John covici
2007-03-10 2:37 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2007-03-10 2:59 ` John covici
2007-03-10 3:12 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-03-10 5:30 ` John covici
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