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Old 04-12-2018, 05:21 AM   #1
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way to tell gentoo that i installed a package with make install?


i was just doing a emerge system which cairo failed to build or install, but i was able to configure it and install without emerge. is there a way to tell emerge or gentoo that the package is installed, for dependency purposes?
 
Old 04-12-2018, 07:18 AM   #2
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i finally found that i'm supposed to add the package to the package.provided file in /etc/portage or /etc/portage/profile/
 
  


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