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 029701382C5 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4170E0B83; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.cims.nyu.edu (MX.CIMS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 533FEE0A65 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id w1EISTnR013977 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from E7450.localdomain (ool-18be5603.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.86.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id w1EISSXi007099 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:29 -0500 Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 510804594D; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:28 -0500 (EST) From: allan gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble using package.provided References: <87vaezo719.fsf@nyu.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Arve Barsnes's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:59:30 +0100") Message-ID: <87h8qjo27n.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) 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 X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:30 -0500 (EST) for IP:'128.122.49.97' DOMAIN:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' HELO:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' FROM:'gottlieb@nyu.edu' RCPT:'' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:30 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.80 on 128.122.49.99 X-Archives-Salt: 22cb67b8-9556-440b-b9be-cce2b0e8ffa1 X-Archives-Hash: 7bdf43cc68254ad8182c67d5ba0683d9 On Wed, Feb 14 2018, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On 14 February 2018 at 17:44, allan gottlieb wrote: >> I have never needed package.provided before so am probably doing it >> wrong. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. > > The way I understand it, /etc/portage/ doesn't support that, it should > go in /etc/portage/profile/ > > Cheers, > Arve You are correct thanks. However now emerge --update ... @world gives a red-letter warning that dependent packages are in package.provided, which is true. It then gives three possible remedies. Rather than facing that msg every emerge and possibly learning too well to ignore warnings, I adopted the third remedy and removed the package.provided files. I will temporarily use a two step emerge --update ... @world 1. emerge --update --pretend ... @world 2. emerge -1 ... files suggested by 1 minus the bad chromium and webkit-gtk thanks again. allan