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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 21:30:30
Message-Id: 20010218213030.A8662@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list by Jerry A!
1 On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:27:45PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
2 > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:20:01PM -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote:
3 > : On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:13:36PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
4 > :
5 > : > If a package provides for example virtual/mta, does it work to add
6 > : > !virtual/mta to RDEPEND to prevent installation of duplicate mta's ?
7 > :
8 > : !virtual/mta should be added to RDEPEND (for package installs) and DEPEND (for
9 > : ebuild merges). It should work (hasn't been tested yet). I don't think it
10 > : should be automatically added by Portage, but should be specified by the ebuild
11 > : maintainer. Jerry, could you make these two fixes to qmail, exim and postfix?
12 > :
13 > : Best Regards,
14 >
15 > Okay, quick question. Should the syntax be:
16 >
17 > DEPEND="!=virtual/mta"
18 >
19 > or:
20 >
21 > DEPEND="!virtual/mta"
22
23 !virtual/mta, as I wrote in the previous email.
24
25 --
26 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
27 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
28 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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