Bug 154856

Summary:	Custom depencency mechanism
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Adam Carheden <adam.carheden>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Adam Carheden 2006-11-11 22:12:06 UTC

Gentoo should have a way to override dependencies.

Currently kde-meta depends on kopete. kopete has problems on my system. I want to emerge kde as easily as possible, but I don't really care about kopete. It would be great if Gentoo had a mechanism to specify some custom dependencies for a package that would override what's in the ebuild so I could emerge kde-meta without having to fix kopete.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-12 00:31:08 UTC

We have overlays, we have package.provided, we have --nodeps and finally noone forces you to use the KDE metabuild.