Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> Since "emerge -inject" is depreciated, the way to tell emerge that a
> package is already installed is to list it in package.provided.
>
> It seems there is some confusion as to where package.provided should be
> placed. The portage man page talks about /etc/make.profile/ but I have
> seen other documentation (I believe in the gentoo wiki) which says put
> in /etc/portage/.
>
> The problem is that emerge ignores it in /etc/portage and "an emerge
> sync" removes it from /etc/make.profile/.
>
> So the question is: Where should it be placed?
>From the portage manpage:
/etc/portage/profile/
site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/
Zac
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