On 2018-07-22 12:24, Ralph Seichter wrote:
On 22.07.2018 09:27, Kai Peter wrote:

A bit more easier is to create an 'empty' virtual ebuild which at
least does nothing but tells portage the dependency is fulfilled.

Not a good choice, IMO. Portage has its own mechanism for that:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/profile/package.provided

-Ralph

It was related to Ian's suggestion of an extra ebuild. And package.provided have to be configured at each host by hand wich is a big effort if you have a lot of boxes.
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