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On 04/06/14 22:27, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> On 04/06/14 21:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> Hello list, |
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>> The current debate over upower and upower-pm-utils has got me thinking (yes, I |
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>> know): is it possible to install Gentoo on a desktop or a mini-server without |
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>> any PM at all? |
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> Of course. It's USE="-upower" to make.conf and couple of |
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> /etc/portage/package.use |
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> entries, like for example 'xfce-base/xfce4-session -udev', as in, some |
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> packages |
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> use the generic USE flag 'udev' for pulling upower (which is, |
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> essentially, a udev helper) |
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> You may have to avoid some "meta" packages, like gnome-base/gnome, which |
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> are too |
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> greedy with their dependencies |
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> - Samuli |
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This hint is meant for the too greedy "meta" packages: |
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You can also create /etc/portage/profile/package.provided file with a |
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entry like: |
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sys-power/upower-0.9.23 |
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Notice that the syntax of package.provided is different from other |
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package.foo files, |
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and it doesn't have the = in front, so it's really |
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'$category/$package-$version' |
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That will tell Portage you have UPower installed, where as you really don't |
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- Samuli |
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