on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> 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?
Because I do want orca which is another seech package, but gnopernicus
is a dead duck now. Perhaps there should be a virtual speech package
which orca, lsr could both satisfy.
>
> > 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).
I do this because it is supposed to be much more accessible than the
2.0 versions.
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John Covici
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