On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:33:26 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

> > Is there a way to make emerge/Portage pretend that
> > mail-client/evolution is already installed WITHOUT actually
> > installing it? I do NOT want to deinstall gnome-base/gnome and I also
> > don't really want to put gnome-base/gnome in a local overlay.
> 
> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I think (add line
> »mail-client/evolution-V« where V is the pretended version). See »man 5
> portage«.

An alternative solution is to remove the gnome meta-package and install
gnome-light instead. Then run emerge --depclean -p  and add anything you
want to keep to world.

Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-)

SCNR


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Neil Bothwick

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