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From:	Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:27:32
Message-Id:	`200801172220.51824.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage by Grant Edwards

1	On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote:
2	> On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
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4	> > Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual
5	> > packages from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding
6	> > monolithic package,and portage is correctly refusing to let you do
7	> > this.
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9	> Sure, it makes sense now. :)
10	>
11	> Thanks for the explanation.
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13	I just re-read my own post and I'm left with one impression:
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15	There gotta be an easier way to do this split-ebuild thing where the
16	user can see at a glance if a package is monolithic or not...
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20	Alan McKinnon
21	alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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