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 1Hz5or-0002VK-Vt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:02:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5F70mPs017175; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:00:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5F6uWI6011129 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:56:32 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9618764F11 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:56:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.127 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.127 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.281, TW_GT=0.077, TW_KP=0.077] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GN0rc2plneAK for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:56:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140F864D11 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz5iz-0004F7-Nv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:56:01 +0200 Received: from zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch ([212.55.215.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:56:01 +0200 Received: from listen by zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:56:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:55:40 +0200 Organization: n/a Message-ID: <2771855.Lc05nKGiQP@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ab8e8608-ccab-42f3-aab8-ccd6c04b9ab3 X-Archives-Hash: 9e0a4b2a222425b55c0de3c1fef0a951 Good morning! On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kppp and this will finally pull in net-dialup/ppp. Can I now make it somehow so, that I am able to install kdenetwork-meta, but NOT install kppp & ppp? In the documentation at and in man portage at , I read, that I might be able to use the package.provided file. But according to the man page, it is located in the profile directory (/etc/make.profile). I'd rather NOT fiddle with files in such a directory. So I tried to create the file in /etc/portage. Contents: --($:~)-- cat /etc/portage/package.provided kde-base/kppp-3.5.7 net-dialup/ppp-2.4.4-r8 But when I run emerge, I get the following output: [nomerge ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.5.7 USE="-accessibility nls" [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdenetwork-meta-3.5.7 USE="wifi" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kppp-3.5.7 USE="-arts -debug kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-dialup/ppp-2.4.4-r8 USE="-activefilter -atm -dhcp -eap-tls gtk -ipv6 -mppe-mppc pam -radius" 0 kB [nomerge ] net-im/ekiga-2.0.9 USE="-avahi dbus -debug doc gnome sdl" Ie. ppp would be installed. Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. How do I do it right? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list