Mixing portage and tarball packages

fernan82 · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2014 Posts: 70

Hello,

I uninstalled some portage packages (specifically mono, gtk-sharp, monodevelop, and a few other related packages) and installed the latest tarball versions to /usr/local. A lot of other packages that I got installed depend on these so now when I run emerge -vauD @world it wants to reinstall these packages. What's the best way to solve this?

I thought of creating an empty ebuild for them and put it on an overlay, is that a good idea or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

a) that is a really, really bad idea. You should write your own ebuilds if you absolutely need packages that are not in portage.
b) look at package.provided.
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fernan82 · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2014 Posts: 70

Thank you, package.provided looks like just what I need.

I understand it's best to write ebuilds but I forgot to mention I need to be able to modify and rebuild these packages, sometimes many times a day so working with ebuilds would be a lot of extra work and the fact that Gentoo breaks some of these packages into a bunch of small packages makes it even worse.