Re: [gentoo-dev] macos mess

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

Thnxs. Is the fix in cvs? I'd like to make a cvs snapshot and have our 
devs test.

Best regards,

Pieter Van den Abeele

On 25 Jul 2004, at 10:25, Jason Stubbs wrote:

> On Sunday 25 July 2004 13:42, Jason Stubbs wrote:
>> I'll get to work on throwing --inject away completely and replacing
>> it with
>> an profile addition (which will be user extendable) that will allow
>> the
>> ignoring of certain packages during dep resolution.
>
> Done. The file package.provided can be added to profiles and should
> contain a
> cat/pkg-ver for each package that is maintained outside of portage.
> Repoman
> will transparently use the file and not complain about missing deps.
> Users
> can also create and add to /etc/portage/package.provided for anything
> that
> would normally be injected.
>
> Similarities to --inject:
> * The package will be installed if specified on the command line or in
> either
>   system or world.
>
> Differences to --inject:
> * /var/db/pkg is not touched
> * --emptytree will not try to pull the package in
> * Possible upgrades will be ignored on --deep if the "provided"
> package can
>   satisfy all dependencies.
> * The dependencies for the package will be ignored on either --deep or
>   --emptytree.
>
> Regards,
> Jason Stubbs
>
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