Re: [gentoo-user] How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

[Poison BL.]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
> Setup: very new install of gentoo
>
> I want to install emacs-w3m without most of the dependencies:
>
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.17  0 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ] virtual/w3m-0  0 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ] app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.4-r1  USE="X -games" 40 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ] app-editors/emacs-24.4-r1:24  USE="X acl alsa dbus gif gpm gtk gtk3 inotify jpeg png svg tiff xpm zlib -Xaw3d (-aqua) -athena -games -gconf -gfile -gnutls -gsettings -gzip-el -hesiod -imagemagick -kerberos -libxml2 -livecd -m17n-lib -motif -pax_kernel (-selinux) -sound -source -toolkit-scroll-bars -wide-int -xft" 38804 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ] virtual/emacs-24  0 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ] app-emacs/emacs-w3m-1.4.528_pre20140213  LINGUAS="-ja" 734 KiB
>
> I don't want to install another (older) version of emacs.
>
> I installed emacs outside portage from bzr sources.  I'd sooner track
> emacs development my way.
>
> I vaguely remember some way to tell portage about that... but not
> enough to do it...
>
>
>

With the understanding that changes between the version it's asking
for and what you've built on your end (which probably should be done
with a custom ebuild when it impacts as many things as emacs tends to)
might well break whatever's trying to use it, you can use
package.provided to convince portage that whatever dependency it's
looking for is already in place.

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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy