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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:59:00
Message-Id: 3A90B01E.7A8F264D@gottinger.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list by drobbins@gentoo.org
1 drobbins@g.o wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:27:45PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
4 > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:20:01PM -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote:
5 > > : On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:13:36PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
6 > > :
7 > > : > If a package provides for example virtual/mta, does it work to add
8 > > : > !virtual/mta to RDEPEND to prevent installation of duplicate mta's ?
9 > > :
10 > > : !virtual/mta should be added to RDEPEND (for package installs) and DEPEND (for
11 > > : ebuild merges). It should work (hasn't been tested yet). I don't think it
12 > > : should be automatically added by Portage, but should be specified by the ebuild
13 > > : maintainer. Jerry, could you make these two fixes to qmail, exim and postfix?
14 > > :
15 > > : Best Regards,
16 > >
17 > > Okay, quick question. Should the syntax be:
18 > >
19 > > DEPEND="!=virtual/mta"
20 > >
21 > > or:
22 > >
23 > > DEPEND="!virtual/mta"
24 >
25 > !virtual/mta, as I wrote in the previous email.
26
27 But why DEPEND, you should still be able to make an exim package if you have qmail
28 installed.
29 I think it is ok to use it in RDEPEND only.
30
31 achim~
32
33 >
34 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list drobbins@g.o