On 19.02.2017 11:20, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Given sddm is not working for my setup, as per bug #608690, I thought of > trying entrance from the bar overlay. It wants to pull in enlightenment, > which I have already installed from the main tree and would like to keep it > as > such: > > # emerge -uaDv entrance > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ~] x11-wm/enlightenment-9999:0.17/9999::bar > [0.20.6:0.17/0.20.6::gentoo] USE="eeze%* nls pam ukit -doc -egl% -pm-utils% - > static-libs -systemd -wayland (-spell%*)" ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES="appmenu > backlight battery bluez4 clock conf-applications conf-bindings conf-dialogs > conf-display conf-interaction conf-intl conf-menus conf-paths > conf-performance > conf-randr conf-shelves conf-theme conf-window-manipulation conf-window- > remembers connman contact%* cpufreq everything fileman fileman-opinfo gadman > ibar ibox lokker mixer msgbus music-control notification pager pager16%* > quickaccess shot start syscon systray tasks teamwork temperature tiling > winlist wizard xkbswitch -access% -packagkit% -wl-desktop-shell* -wl-drm* -wl- > fb% -wl-x11* (-conf%*) (-geolocation%*) (-packagekit%*) (-pager-plain%*) (- > policy-mobile%*) (-wl-text-input%*) (-wl-weekeyboard%*) (-wl-wl%*) (- > xwayland%*)" 0 KiB > [ebuild N *] x11-plugins/entrance-9999::bar USE="consolekit pam -grub - > systemd -vkbd" 0 KiB > > > So I tried in /etc/portage/package.provided any combination of these: > > x11-wm/enlightenment-9999:0.17/9999::bar > > =x11-wm/enlightenment-9999:0.17 > > x11-wm/enlightenment-9999 > > None of which can stop portage dragging in 'x11- > wm/enlightenment-9999:0.17/9999::bar'. What is the correct syntax to block > this version of enlightenment from emerging? > According to the portage manpage 'x11-wm/enlightenment-9999' should be the correct syntax.
But I think, package.provided is the wrong file at all. The correct way to accomplish what you want to is masking 'x11-wm/enlightenment-9999:0.17/9999::bar'. The problem with this package is that it is keyworded incorrectly as '~amd64 ~x86' despite being a live ebuild. If you already have enlightenment:0.17 installed this should suffice, since entrance only depends on this and not the live ebuild.
