/etc/portage/profile/package.provided doesn't work? [SOLVED]

crazycat · Last edited by crazycat on Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:00 pm; edited 1 time in total

My problem is that emerge -u world wants to emerge mplayer, while i added
media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6 and media-video/mplayer to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Portage still wants to emerge mplayer and i dont want it because i use 32 bit one because of codecs. emerge --inject also doesn't work anymore. So my question is how to prevent mplayer from emerging (some working solution). I cannot rename it cause if i rename gmplayer , it doesn't start gui.

Earthwings · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject:

Sounds like mplayer is in your world file. Mask the newer versions of mplayer in that case using /etc/portage/package.mask

crazycat · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject:

I removed media/mplayer from /var/lib/portage/world and i dont get mplayer anymore. Thanks for the quick help.