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

[Nils Holland]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:18:25PM -0500, Harry Putnam 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...

Reading your question again I see that I might have misunderstood it.
So, it seems that you want to install an ebuild from portage for which
you have satistied a dependency by manually installing some piece of
software. In that case /etc/portage/package.provided is the file you
want to edit. You add lines in there that describe which packages the
system should assume are already in place, as you've dealt with them
by hand. portage(5) has more details about the purpose of that file.

Greetings,
Nils