On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed': > Good morning! > > On my system, 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? > > 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 > > Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. > > How do I do it right?
As Peter Alfredsen mentioned, overrides for your profile should go in /etc/portage/profile instead of /etc/portage. However, I suggest that a cleaner method would be to not install kde-meta or kdenetwork-meta at all but instead just install the KDE applications that you require. For example: $ grep -i kde /var/db/pkg/world dev-util/kdesvn kde-base/akregator kde-base/kalzium kde-base/kaudiocreator kde-base/kcharselect kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver kde-base/kdeartwork-kwin-styles kde-base/kdeartwork-styles kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/kdm kde-base/kget kde-base/kgpg kde-base/kicker-applets kde-base/klipper kde-base/kmahjongg kde-base/kmail kde-base/kmenuedit kde-base/kmix kde-base/kompare kde-base/konq-plugins kde-base/konqueror-akregator kde-base/konsole kde-base/kontact kde-base/korganizer kde-base/kpager kde-base/kpdf kde-base/kscreensaver kde-base/kstars kde-base/ksysguard kde-base/kwalletmanager kde-base/kwin kde-base/superkaramba kde-misc/kdiff3 kde-misc/filelight -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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