On Wed, Feb 14 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 14/02/18 18:44, allan gottlieb wrote: >> I have never needed package.provided before so am probably doing it >> wrong. >> >> There are know bugs I am encountering with >> www-client/chromium-64.0.3282.140 and >> net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200 >> >> Since each takes a while to build before failing, I would like to stop >> trying until there is progress on the bugs >> >> man 5 portage made me believe that package.provide was the answer. > > Why not just mask it? (/etc/portage/package.mask)
Basically the same problem as --exclude. Portage wants me to unmask them because they are needed. Chromium is in @world and webkit-gtk is needed for gnucash. allan
