Am 24.03.2013 18:14, schrieb Jarry: > On 24-Mar-13 17:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:26:03 +0100, Jarry wrote: >> >>> [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7.10:3.7.10 USE="-build >>> -deblob -symlink" 68,335 kB >>> [ebuild N ] virtual/linux-sources-0 0 kB >>> [ebuild R ] sys-apps/kmod-12-r1 USE="tools zlib -debug -doc -lzma >>> -static-libs" KERNEL="(linux%*)" 0 kB >> >>> Why in the heavens name should be gentoo-sources pulled in as >>> dependency of whatever? >> >> As a dependency of virtual-sources, which is probably pulled in by kmod. >> Adding --tree would have told you for sure. >> >> You may get away with adding gentoo-sources to package.provided. > > Thanks, this works (never heard of this file before). But there > is one small problem: no wildcards are allowed, so whenever new > sorces come I'll have to edit package.provided again, and again
No, that's not true. Here's the quote from the man page: Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than what has been listed. Dependencies that are satisfied by package.provided entries may cause installed packages satisfying equivalent dependencies to be removed by emerge(1) --depclean actions (see the ACTIONS section of the emerge(1) man page for more information).
