From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94FF31396D0 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DE522BC011; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from very.loosely.org (very.loosely.org [173.255.215.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E33D92BC002 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:30:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.8.78.6] (port=37304 helo=matica.foolinux.mooo.com) by ahiker.mooo.com with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1dx1BU-0004Ps-Vs for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:44 -0700 Received: from itz by matica.foolinux.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1dx1BK-0003ek-1X for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:34 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:33 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing dependencies without upping version ?? Message-ID: <20170927013033.swgykevoswge5oer@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170924173753.bxpluo4s6f42uojo@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170925170341.74api4s3evxsbly4@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <0fbc546c-bd8f-a6d9-b3dc-1cdd50fcf336@gentoo.org> <20170926184544.ng6dzg4njfye4v3u@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170927023835.5044b622@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170927023835.5044b622@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de> X-Loosely-Listed: yes User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170707 (1.8.3) X-Archives-Salt: fcef413b-80c9-4861-9086-d44dd5b67306 X-Archives-Hash: cfbcb0000b680db94af1c4de7f6b0cdc On 2017-09-27 02:38, Kai Krakow wrote: > If you don't want (or cannot) upgrade, you have two options: > > 1. Prepare to maintain your own overlay and deal with it > > 2. Don't use a rolling release distribution > > Personally, and since you seem to know enough to manage your own > overlay, I'd stick to #1. I do so already, and in fact my initial workaround was to fork the ebuild in my repo, pretty much like you recommend. But I didn't know that this was the official way of stopping upgrades. I thought package.mask was that, and I think that's what the Handbook (or maybe some other part of the wiki) recommends. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.