From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble using package.provided
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:47:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv0bmh7a.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p620ro$5bt$1@blaine.gmane.org> (Nikos Chantziaras's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:00:59 +0200")
On Wed, Feb 14 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 14/02/18 18:44, allan gottlieb wrote:
>> I have never needed package.provided before so am probably doing it
>> wrong.
>>
>> There are know bugs I am encountering with
>> www-client/chromium-64.0.3282.140 and
>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200
>>
>> Since each takes a while to build before failing, I would like to stop
>> trying until there is progress on the bugs
>>
>> man 5 portage made me believe that package.provide was the answer.
>
> Why not just mask it? (/etc/portage/package.mask)
Basically the same problem as --exclude. Portage wants me to unmask
them because they are needed. Chromium is in @world and webkit-gtk is
needed for gnucash.
allan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 16:44 [gentoo-user] Trouble using package.provided allan gottlieb
2018-02-14 16:59 ` Arve Barsnes
2018-02-14 18:28 ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-14 18:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-14 20:36 ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-14 19:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-14 20:47 ` allan gottlieb [this message]
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