if I inject app-emulation/crossover-office-bin-4.1 into my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided by adding line "app-emulation/crossover-office-bin-4.1" and trying check: ~ # emerge -pv app-emulation/crossover-office-bin These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N F ] app-emulation/crossover-office-bin-4.1 12,494 kB Total size of downloads: 12,494 kB it dont seems to be injected at all my emerge here: info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 9 2005, 12:12:30)] distcc[18815] (dcc_mkdir) ERROR: mkdir /var/tmp/portage/homedir/.distcc/state failed: No such file or directory [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/media/MEDIA1/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--enable-new-dtags" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/media/MEDIA1/gentoo/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi acpi4linux activefilter alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gd gif gphoto2 gpm gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick imlib innodb jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse lufsusermount lzo mad maildir mbox mikmod mjpeg mmx motif mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc nas ncurses no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 nomotif nptl nptlonly odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib pic png pwdb qt quicktime readline real rtc samba slang slp spell ssl symlink tetex threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts unicode usb utf8 v4l v4l2 vcdimager wifi xine xml2 xv yv12 zlib linguas_ru" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL
package.provided only takes effect on dependencies from other packages. It doesn't prevent you from installing a package.
By mail... On Monday 21 February 2005 12:46, Alexey Maximov wrote: > What do you think - how can I inject package globally and not use --inject? What is it that you want? Would you like emerge to show [ R ] rather than [ N ] ? The package is _not_ installed with portage so there's no way portage can reinstall it. If you want to prevent portage from installing the package even if you ask for it to be installed, use package.mask.
