On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:06:37 John covici wrote:
> OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency
> -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any
> way to fool portage that I have such a thing when I don't? 

Why don't you just disable the accessibility use flag if you don't want it?

> Another one is mozilla-firefox I want to use the 3.0 nightly build compiled
> from source, can I fool portage into thinking I have mozilla-2.0 or
> whatever when I don't have such a beast?

You *can* use package.provided (see `man portage`) but I doubt that epiphany 
and yelp will work with it... Personally I'd probably create an ebuild if I 
really wanted firefox 3 now (which I don't).

-- 
Bo Andresen

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