On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:33:51 -0500
"Jerome Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm trying to accomplish the equivalent of adding
> "media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r3" to
> "/etc/portage/profile/package.provided", per
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts#Emerging_the_Necessary_Packages

Yick... Be very wary of anything you read on a wiki...

> As far as i understand, after creating an "installed_unpackaged"
> repository, i should submit a:
> importare ---location /var/empty -D "Bitstream Vera font family"
> media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
> 
> 1. Do i really need to specify the version-release numbers? That seems
> restrictive.

If you don't, Paludis treats it as version 0.

> 2. Should i specify deps options (-B, -R) too, to be thorough?

Only if you expect Paludis to track dependencies for your imported
package. If you're importing an empty package, it probably has no
dependencies, so no.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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