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 E14841382C5 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:47:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02136E0BD2; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:47:43 +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 8B102E0B9E for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:47:42 +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 w1EKlcPb021585 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:47:39 -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 w1EKlbLu016179 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:47:38 -0500 Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4E7FC45956; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: allan gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble using package.provided References: <87vaezo719.fsf@nyu.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:47:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Nikos Chantziaras's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:00:59 +0200") Message-ID: <87mv0bmh7a.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 15:47:39 -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 15:47:39 -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: 47d77c73-238c-4411-8b0e-e6840b391d01 X-Archives-Hash: eec2688c427676edab807ec21291b499 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