[gentoo-user] Re: Make portage assume, that a package is installed

[Alexander Skwar]

Justin Findlay <justin@××××××××.us> wrote:

> On AD 2007 June 15 Friday 08:55:40 AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever
>> do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp.
>> But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will
>> pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kppp
>> and this will finally pull in net-dialup/ppp.
>
> When I encountered this one (there really should be a ppp flag for

Yep.

> the kdenetwork ebuild), I did this:
>
> # vi $(equery which kdenetwork)

Thanks. But I also do not want to edit the ebuild :) BTW:
It would be better to first copy it to a local overlay, I'd
think.

Alexander Skwar

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