On 23.07.2018 08:56, Kai Peter wrote:
> package.provided have to be configured at each host by hand wich is a
> big effort if you have a lot of boxes.
I call that nonsense. How is that an effort, especially if the proposed
alternative is installing a do-nothing ebuild on "a lot of boxes"?
"He wh
On 2018-07-22 12:24, Ralph Seichter wrote:
On 22.07.2018 09:27, Kai Peter wrote:
A bit more easier is to create an 'empty' virtual ebuild which at
least does nothing but tells portage the dependency is fulfilled.
Not a good choice, IMO. Portage has its own mechanism for that:
https://wiki.gen
On 22/07/18 00:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
But what's the proper method to tell my gentoo system that I don't want
crud like nullmailer installed? How can I guard myself against such
presumptiousness on the part of the Gentoo devs in the future?
By reading the output of "emerge --ask <...>" next
On 22.07.2018 09:27, Kai Peter wrote:
> A bit more easier is to create an 'empty' virtual ebuild which at
> least does nothing but tells portage the dependency is fulfilled.
Not a good choice, IMO. Portage has its own mechanism for that:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/profile/package.p
On 2018-07-22 04:11, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2018-07-21 23:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
Manually installing things in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin will often cause
problems because Portage assumes that it controls those directories.
So don't do that: you should manually install things in /usr/local.
Or,
On 2018-07-21 23:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Manually installing things in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin will often cause
> problems because Portage assumes that it controls those directories.
>
> So don't do that: you should manually install things in /usr/local.
>
> Or, install qmail using portage, so
On 2018-07-21, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> What has happened is that somebody decided to add virtual/mta-1
> surreptitiously to the default software set in Gentoo. This
> installs something called nullmailer, which I don't need, didn't ask
> for, and fouls up my mail transmission.
>
> nullmailer ins
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