On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:33:10 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm still trying to come to grips with understanding ebuilds so please > bear with me if this is a simple question. I've just sync'd and then > done an > > emerge --ask -NuD world > > I have LLVM/clang installed and upon browsing the updates saw > app-vim/llvm-vim. This is some sort of syntax highlighting thingy for > Vim. I don't have Vim installed so went into the llvm-4.0.0 ebuild and > saw the line > > PDEPEND="app-vim/llvm-vim > > My understanding is that PDEPEND means that something, in this case > llvm-vim, will be installed after the update of llvm - correct? If so, I > can't see any way of "turning this off" as I don't want even more junk > installed on my machine. > > Have I understood the ebuild correctly and it could do with a "fiddle" > so that it doesn't force this install?
Yes, it could - I wondered the same thing. File an enhancement request in bugzilla so that vim support can be optional via the already existing "vim" USE flag. In the meantime try: $echo "app-vim/llvm-vim-9999" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided This tells portage that the package is installed as version 9999, so any future llvm/clang updates won't try to update it. -h
