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From: Alex <alex.tsr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:18:49
Message-Id: 200508291317.50198.alex.tsr@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone by Nagatoro
1 On Monday 29 August 2005 09:53, Nagatoro wrote:
2 > In my mind that means just that; as long as someother package doesn't
3 > _need_ a newer version portage will ignore all versions of the
4 > provided package.
5
6 Yup, so you would only need to change the version of the package in
7 packages.provided to a newer one only if you see it pulled as a dependency.
8 Just enter the latest version available in portage and you should be ok for a
9 long time :)
10 --
11 Cheers, Alex.