On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:29:58 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > Yes, I know about that. What I want is a way to ignore dependencies > the same way I ignore updates using package.mask and package.unmask. > For example, the gnome meta-package depends on evolution and epiphany, > though none of them are actually required to run gnome. It just > happens that the meta-package installs a full gnome environment. Now I > know about gnome-light, but there must be other packages with unneeded > dependencies like this.
Other meta packages maybe, like the KDE ones. These are convenient ways of installing a bunch of packages in one go. With a normal package, a dependency is just that, something on which it depends. You can fool the system by including packages in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, but you may find things breaking as a result. -- Neil Bothwick Where do you think you're going today?
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