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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:29:40
Message-Id: 539D758C.7020206@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 03:59:25 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >>> Though I would prefix the atom with ~ instead of = to cover patch
5 >>> level updates.
6 >> I have looked for a place where it is documented how to do that. I know
7 >> there is a lot of ways to add packages to those files with <=> and such
8 >> in front of the package names. Do you have a link to some docs on
9 >> that? If not, some examples would be cool.
10 > man portage
11 > man 5 ebuild
12 >
13 > The latter has more detail.
14
15 Gold mine. I knew it had to be somewhere but never could find it.
16 Thank you!!
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19 >
20 >> Well, I was going to try adding the variable to make.conf as posted in
21 >> another email. I think that may be better since this seems to be a
22 >> issue that is "in flux" at the moment. ;-)
23 > I think the very fluxiness of it would put me off enabling it globally
24 > and set it case by case until things had settled down.
25 >
26 > BTW eix-test-obsolete is a good tool for cleaning up /etc/portage,
27 > finding all sorts of per-package settings you set and forgot about.
28 >
29 >
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32 Yea, may try that. I dunno. To sleepy right now.
33
34 I tend to forget to run that until the list gets HUGE then it is like,
35 that takes to long so oh well. I really need to spend a few hours
36 working on that tho. I'm sure it is a nightmare by now.
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38 Dale
39
40 :-) :-)
41
42 --
43 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!