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From: drobbins@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:20:01
Message-Id: 20010218162000.C7240@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list by 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:13:36PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
2
3 > If a package provides for example virtual/mta, does it work to add
4 > !virtual/mta to RDEPEND to prevent installation of duplicate mta's ?
5
6 !virtual/mta should be added to RDEPEND (for package installs) and DEPEND (for
7 ebuild merges). It should work (hasn't been tested yet). I don't think it
8 should be automatically added by Portage, but should be specified by the ebuild
9 maintainer. Jerry, could you make these two fixes to qmail, exim and postfix?
10
11 Best Regards,
12
13 --
14 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
15 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
16 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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