Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:17:11 +0000 schrieb Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>:
> On Sunday 19 Feb 2017 10:50:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:45:27 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > [...] > > > > > > 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'. > > > > Agreed. > > > > Another option is to copy/symlink the specific package you want > > from the bar overlay to your local overlay and do not include the > > bar overlay in repos.conf. > > Sorry for being dense. Do you mean first add the overlay with > 'layman -a bar', then symlink the particular package to my local > overlay? How will I be updating this package in the future, if I do > not have the 'bar' overlay settings > in /etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf? > > I'm trying to understand the benefit of doing it as you suggest > above ... :-/ You could package.mask */*::bar and then only unmask the needed bits. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
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