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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 15:46:40
Message-Id: 6142e6140705080839o179245d0k16690a9df76f13dc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] package.provided by Daniel Iliev
1 > I have x11-wm/beryl-0.2.1 installed on a stable system. One of its
2 > dependencies is ~x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 which dies during compilation.
3 > This is fine with me because I installed beryl issuing:
4 > "emerge --resume --skipfirst"
5 > and it works OK. My problem is that portage wants to pull in aquamarine
6 > every time I execute:
7 > "emerge -DuN world"
8 > or
9 > "emerge --depclean".
10 >
11 > Following the official docs [1] I did
12 > "echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided"
13 > but it doesn't seem to help.
14
15 I guess you are using heliodor or emerald as window-decorator.
16 You can try to unset the kde use flag for the beryl ebuild which tries
17 to pull in aquamarine.
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Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>