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 1HPs6x-0004do-9u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:19:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2A3HwDG029282; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:17:58 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 l2A3D61G024581 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:13:06 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8CF14002 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:13:06 +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 04:12:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <17906.4781.329117.461003@ccs.covici.com> <200703100337.53931.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <17906.7970.644553.181364@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <17906.7970.644553.181364@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="nextPart3273706.Jx7u6NPnSi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703100413.04958.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 8c896007-4bcf-4597-9753-d6c996cb4c39 X-Archives-Hash: 1a6a17501b57c16d30f4edd4d6f76a04 --nextPart3273706.Jx7u6NPnSi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:59:46 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? > > 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. What has orca to do with it? Nothing in the tree depends on it. If you want= it=20 just add it to your world file (see --noreplace in `man emerge`). The gnome ebuild is just a meta package (essentially a virtual that nothing= =20 must depend on directly). It installs nothing itself. So if you want other= =20 packages that it does depend on with accessibility enabled just add those t= o=20 your world file too... > > > 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). > > I do this because it is supposed to be much more accessible than the > 2.0 versions. Accessible? Not understood. ;) =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart3273706.Jx7u6NPnSi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF8iJA8/kKEzmwNNoRAiTAAKDAw3x0jl63CVxx9w/GvRmAIQiUNgCgiWQF Q/6A5chz44PZSgvC+2YP4N8= =wstZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3273706.Jx7u6NPnSi-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list