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 1HPrYK-00031u-4k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:43:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2A2gCNI026782; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:42:12 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2A2btVE022098 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:37:55 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5EC14002 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:37:55 +0100 (CET) From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:37:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <17906.4781.329117.461003@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <17906.4781.329117.461003@ccs.covici.com> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1506243.Scryu8PtEE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703100337.53931.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: cbaeba7f-8620-4225-b430-8b716030dc1b X-Archives-Hash: 9e7681e5fc24419c1c36287dba76de34 --nextPart1506243.Scryu8PtEE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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?=20 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 compil= ed > 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 epiphan= y=20 and yelp will work with it... Personally I'd probably create an ebuild if I= =20 really wanted firefox 3 now (which I don't). =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart1506243.Scryu8PtEE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF8hoB8/kKEzmwNNoRAss7AJ9+xMI3pOqwH86wKVS+zBWWnQSemgCgsFdV E5bmkVWbrQclPwfdFLdKiuE= =qEuR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1506243.Scryu8PtEE-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list