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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Regarding packages.provided
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:44:17
Message-Id: 20050602214949.3992ce2b@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Regarding packages.provided by Chakkaradeep C C
1 On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:50:35 +0530
2 Chakkaradeep C C <chaks.lfs@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > hi ,
5 >
6 > > Why don't you just write an ebuild in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY instead?
7 > > Strikes me as the easier solution ...
8 >
9 > yeah i thought about this and am finding some difficulties in writing
10 > e-builds,but still this would be using customized packages provided by
11 > other sources than Gentoo....so what abt identifying packages already
12 > installed??....
13
14 How? That's plain not possible, manually installed packages don't
15 register themselves anywhere, so there is NO way to detect them. Or
16 what do you mean with "other sources"?
17
18 Marius
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