/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
Any issues caused by entries here are not Gentoo bugs and should be removed before seeking help. Gentoo dependencies exist for good reason and the project cannot support deviation.
The /etc/portage/profile/package.provided file can contain a list of packages (one per line) that Portage should assume have been provided. This is useful for porting to non-Linux systems. It is essentially a list that replaces the emerge --inject syntax.
For example, to manage a copy of the 4.0 kernel, Portage can be told that sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.0.2 has been installed.
Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided file unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than what has been listed. Dependencies that are satisfied by package.provided entries may cause installed packages satisfying equivalent dependencies to be removed by emerge --depclean actions (see the ACTIONS section of the emerge man page for more information).
Format
- Comments begin with
#(no inline comments). - One DEPEND atom per line.
- Relational operators are not allowed.
- Must include a version.
- USE flags and slot dependencies are not yet supported (See bug #142941)
Example
/etc/portage/profile/package.providedpackage.provided example# To take care of the kernel
sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.0.2
# To install a special copy of QT
dev-qt/qtcore-5.4.1
# To have modular X but packages want monolithic
x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r2
External resources
- https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1069622.html — Forum talk about drawbacks of package.provided