Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble using package.provided

On Wed, Feb 14 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:28 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: > >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble using package.provided

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:28 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: > 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble using package.provided

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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble using package.provided

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

[gentoo-user] Trouble using package.provided

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