Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list

[Jerry A!]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:20:01PM -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote:
: On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:13:36PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
: 
: > If a package provides for example virtual/mta, does it work to add
: > !virtual/mta to RDEPEND to prevent installation of duplicate mta's ?
: 
: !virtual/mta should be added to RDEPEND (for package installs) and DEPEND (for
: ebuild merges).  It should work (hasn't been tested yet).  I don't think it
: should be automatically added by Portage, but should be specified by the ebuild
: maintainer.  Jerry, could you make these two fixes to qmail, exim and postfix?
: 
: Best Regards,

Okay, quick question.  Should the syntax be:

DEPEND="!=virtual/mta"

or:

DEPEND="!virtual/mta" 

        --Jerry

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