Mplayer-Bin In Portage Dependency [SOLVED]

xevix · Last edited by xevix on Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:24 pm; edited 1 time in total

Has anyone else noticed that programs relying on mplayer keep trying to pull mplayer in as a dependency, _even if_ you have mplayer-bin emerged? Here's some examples:

ksubtile
mplayerplug-in

Is there some way we can stop this from being pulled in as a dependency. Yes, it's easy enough to do "emerge -O ksubtile" once... but every time I emerge world, it tries to pull in the mplayer package, even though I have mplayer-bin. I'm not sure how to go about applying for this change, just wondering if anyone else out there is experiencing this.
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Kruegi · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

You may add mplayer to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

Thomas

xevix · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:23 pm Post subject:

That works. Thanks.
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crazycat · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject:

Won't that file get overwritten each time you do emerge sync?

marvin5 · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject: