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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided messes up emerging of package slots?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:44:27
Message-Id: 2382470.FN6qSQUcrF@pc
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] package.provided messes up emerging of package slots? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
3 >
4 > media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2
5 >
6 > When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer
7 > version, I get:
8 >
9 > $ emerge freetype
10 >
11 > WARNING: A requested package will not be merged because it is listed
12 > in package.provided:
13 >
14 > freetype pulled in by 'args'
15 >
16 > Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No]
17 >
18 > Trying "emerge freetype:2" also won't work. The only only to emerge it
19 > seems is by using the whole version ("emerge =freetype-2.4.6"). Is this
20 > a bug?
21
22 At least it's inconsistent. I would expect that the emerge with complete
23 version also fails.
24
25 Regards,
26 Michael

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[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided messes up emerging of package slots? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>