Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Patrick Börjesson" <psychotical@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Connecting source and binary packages.
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:17:47
Message-Id: 20080716181737.GC603@nexon.nexus
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Connecting source and binary packages. by Jason Cipriani
1 On 2008-07-16 14:12, Jason Cipriani uttered these thoughts:
2 > I have mozilla-firefox-bin installed, but when I update things that
3 > depend on firefox (such as epiphany), they attempt to get
4 > mozilla-firefox instead. How do I make emerge realize that I already
5 > have the binaries installed and don't need the source distribution?
6
7 man portage, search for package.provided
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Connecting source and binary packages. Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>