Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Connecting source and binary packages.
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:55:02
Message-Id: 20080716205340.05281d19.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Connecting source and binary packages. by "Patrick Börjesson"
1 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:17:37 +0200
2 Patrick Börjesson <psychotical@×××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On 2008-07-16 14:12, Jason Cipriani uttered these thoughts:
5 > > I have mozilla-firefox-bin installed, but when I update things that
6 > > depend on firefox (such as epiphany), they attempt to get
7 > > mozilla-firefox instead. How do I make emerge realize that I already
8 > > have the binaries installed and don't need the source distribution?
9 >
10 > man portage, search for package.provided
11
12 Assuming that the packages do actually work with the -bin version ...
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