Hi, I want to mark some software as provided from other sources. And want to prevent long comments from emerge and friends about my doing so.
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided seems to be a good place for that...but according to the documents, one needs to specifiy a version and relational operators are not allowed...which make me think that I have to mention any single version in past, current and future existence to prevent emerge from installing a previous or current version of that software for a longer time. Thinking of some packages, which are getting updates very often I see myself writing scripts to populate package.provided with a lot of stuff and scripts to delete obsoleted entries from there. If I put those packages into package.mask, emerge comments on every update of the system, that "needed packages are masked". Is there any clean way to get out of this? Cheers Meino
