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On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:33:10 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> I have LLVM/clang installed and upon browsing the updates saw |
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> app-vim/llvm-vim. This is some sort of syntax highlighting thingy for |
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> Vim. I don't have Vim installed so went into the llvm-4.0.0 ebuild and |
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> saw the line |
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> PDEPEND="app-vim/llvm-vim |
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> My understanding is that PDEPEND means that something, in this case |
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> llvm-vim, will be installed after the update of llvm - correct? |
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That's right. |
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> If so, |
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> I can't see any way of "turning this off" as I don't want even more |
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> junk installed on my machine. |
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It is a fixed dependency, so the ebuild maintainer considers it |
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compulsory. |
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> Have I understood the ebuild correctly and it could do with a |
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> "fiddle" so that it doesn't force this install? |
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You can remove the dependency from the ebuild and recreate the manifest, |
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then one of the following may happen. |
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It will fail to build |
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It will build but fail to run |
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It will build and run successfully |
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One or more kittens/puppies will die |
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If only option 3 happens, copy the modified ebuild to a local overlay to |
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prevent the dependency being reinstated when you next sync. Then file a |
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bug asking for this to be controlled by a USE flag. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Forget the Joneses...I can't keep up with The Simpsons. |
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