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on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen(bo.andresen@××××.dk) wrote |
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> On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:06:37 John covici wrote: |
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> > OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency |
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> > -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any |
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> > way to fool portage that I have such a thing when I don't? |
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> Why don't you just disable the accessibility use flag if you don't |
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> want it? |
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Because I do want orca which is another seech package, but gnopernicus |
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is a dead duck now. Perhaps there should be a virtual speech package |
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which orca, lsr could both satisfy. |
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> > Another one is mozilla-firefox I want to use the 3.0 nightly build compiled |
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> > from source, can I fool portage into thinking I have mozilla-2.0 or |
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> > whatever when I don't have such a beast? |
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> You *can* use package.provided (see `man portage`) but I doubt that epiphany |
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> and yelp will work with it... Personally I'd probably create an ebuild if I |
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> really wanted firefox 3 now (which I don't). |
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I do this because it is supposed to be much more accessible than the |
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2.0 versions. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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