Ciges 0 Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Hi Is there a way to tell portage that a package is already installed? I would like that a package from a dependency not to be installed and the easiest way could be to "pretend" it is already in the system. Any idea? Link to post Share on other sites
0 Oleg Vinichenko 107 Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 yes, there is a package.provided feature. adding category such as: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-381.22 into /etc/portage/package.provided will make portage think that this exact version installed on users box, when in reality it's not. notice a syntax, if you need specific version (381.22) you don't put atom ("=" in this example) in front of category, unlike it's needed for masks or unmasks or keywords. Link to post Share on other sites
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Is there a way to tell portage that a package is already installed? I would like that a package from a dependency not to be installed and the easiest way could be to "pretend" it is already in the system.
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