Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[Nagatoro <nagatoro@gmail.com>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alex <alex.tsr@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes I saw that too,  But that wasn't necessary before.  So maybe new?
> But it also raises another question.  The emacs I wanted to keep is an
> older version than the newest in portage.   So do I enter that version?
> 
> That is, will portage just ignore the fact that there is a newer
> version.  Or does it mean I need to put the newest version number in
>  /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
> even though that isn't what I have?
> 
 From Harry Putnam's post:
Portage will not  attempt to update a package that is listed here 
unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer 
than what has been listed.

In my mind that means just that; as long as someother package doesn't 
_need_ a newer version portage will ignore all versions of the 
provided package.

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Naga
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