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On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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> Good morning! |
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> |
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> On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever |
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> do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. |
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> But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will |
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> pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kppp |
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> and this will finally pull in net-dialup/ppp. |
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> |
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> Can I now make it somehow so, that I am able to install kdenetwork-meta, |
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> but NOT install kppp & ppp? |
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> In the documentation at |
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> <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5> and |
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> in man portage at <http://gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_Portage>, I read, that I |
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> might be able to use the package.provided file. But according to the man |
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> page, it is located in the profile directory (/etc/make.profile). I'd |
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> rather NOT fiddle with files in such a directory. |
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> |
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> So I tried to create the file in /etc/portage. Contents: |
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> --($:~)-- cat /etc/portage/package.provided |
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> kde-base/kppp-3.5.7 |
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> net-dialup/ppp-2.4.4-r8 |
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[...] |
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> Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. |
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> How do I do it right? |
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See: |
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http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=114173922424811&w=2 |
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Basically: |
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mkdir /etc/portage/profile |
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cp /etc/portage/package.provided /etc/portage/profile/package.provided |
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Try it. |
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You might want to leave out the version numbers from kppp and ppp (Think of |
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what happens when kppp 3.5.8 comes out or when ppp-2.4.4-r9 comes out). |
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/PA |
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