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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 18:23:20
Message-Id: 20080716182310.GD603@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 Never mind my first response, i parsed your mail a bit too quick. I
8 would imagine that those packages that draw in mozilla-firefox when you
9 already have mozilla-firefox-bin installed requires something that isn't
10 available in the binary package.
11
12 Although, if you enable the xulrunner use-flag, it draws that in
13 instead, but i'm not sure how big a difference there is in size in
14 between those (mozilla-firefox and xulrunner that is)
15
16 Patrick B
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Connecting source and binary packages. Jason Cipriani <jason.cipriani@×××××.com>