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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:02:10
Message-Id: 20031106180157.4a82d21b.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) by Anthony de Boer
1 On 11/06/03 Anthony de Boer wrote:
2
3 > Terje Kvernes wrote:
4 > > inject an ebuild with a version number high enough that you won't
5 > > ever see it again.
6 >
7 > For some reason emerge isn't fooling itself:
8 >
9 > # emerge --inject sys-apps/slocate-999.9
10 > ...
11 >
12 > # emerge -up --deep world
13 > ...
14 > [ebuild N ] sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r2
15 > ...
16
17 Yeah, "system" packages are hard to get rid off. Injecting 2.7-r99
18 should keep slocate from your system until there is a new version, the
19 real solution would be some kind of overlay or stacked profiles, however
20 that's not trivial and needs careful planning.
21
22 Marius
23
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26
27 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
28 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.