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On 16/03/17 02:32, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: |
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> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:33:10 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I'm still trying to come to grips with understanding ebuilds so please |
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>> bear with me if this is a simple question. I've just sync'd and then |
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>> done an |
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>> emerge --ask -NuD world |
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>> I have LLVM/clang installed and upon browsing the updates saw |
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>> app-vim/llvm-vim. This is some sort of syntax highlighting thingy for |
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>> Vim. I don't have Vim installed so went into the llvm-4.0.0 ebuild and |
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>> saw the line |
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>> PDEPEND="app-vim/llvm-vim |
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>> My understanding is that PDEPEND means that something, in this case |
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>> llvm-vim, will be installed after the update of llvm - correct? If so, I |
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>> can't see any way of "turning this off" as I don't want even more junk |
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>> installed on my machine. |
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>> Have I understood the ebuild correctly and it could do with a "fiddle" |
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>> so that it doesn't force this install? |
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> Yes, it could - I wondered the same thing. File an enhancement request |
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> in bugzilla so that vim support can be optional via the already existing |
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> "vim" USE flag. |
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> In the meantime try: |
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> $echo "app-vim/llvm-vim-9999" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided |
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> This tells portage that the package is installed as version 9999, so |
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> any future llvm/clang updates won't try to update it. |
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> -h |
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Neil & Holger, |
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Thanks for the thoughts, I will file the request. |
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Andrew |
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