On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Good morning! > > On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever > do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. > But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will > pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kppp > and this will finally pull in net-dialup/ppp. > > Can I now make it somehow so, that I am able to install kdenetwork-meta, > but NOT install kppp & ppp? > > In the documentation at > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5> and > in man portage at <http://gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_Portage>, I read, that I > might be able to use the package.provided file. But according to the man > page, it is located in the profile directory (/etc/make.profile). I'd > rather NOT fiddle with files in such a directory. > > So I tried to create the file in /etc/portage. Contents: > > --($:~)-- cat /etc/portage/package.provided > kde-base/kppp-3.5.7 > net-dialup/ppp-2.4.4-r8 [...] > Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. > > How do I do it right?
See: http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=114173922424811&w=2 Basically: mkdir /etc/portage/profile cp /etc/portage/package.provided /etc/portage/profile/package.provided Try it. You might want to leave out the version numbers from kppp and ppp (Think of what happens when kppp 3.5.8 comes out or when ppp-2.4.4-r9 comes out). -- /PA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
