On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:04:55 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > thank you _very_ much for the hints. That is far more easier than I > exspected to be allowed to believe ;).
No it's not. > One thing remains: > I found no way to 'provide' a package without a versioning. Is it > possible ? > > And: > Let package 'C' depend on package 'B' which depends on package 'A'. > C is installed. > B is in entry in package.provided and installed from external sources. > A is installed. > > Now I ran > > emerge --depclean -vp > > and it suggests to remove C. See? Trying to fool and work around portage is always going to come back and bite you. Either you trust it to look after your system or you do not. Using package.provided is a kludge which *will* raise all sorts of dependency and versioning issues at the most inconvenient time. There is an ebuild for the version you want in an overlay, just use it and let portage work as it is supposed to. -- Neil Bothwick I just took an IQ test. The results were negative.
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