It's package.provided ... I hadn't thought of that. I'll definitely give it a try. Michael Whapples wrote: > Probably isn't considered as a bug, you would want speakup to use > speechd-up. The problem is that you have decided to maintain speakup > yourself without telling portage that you are going to do this. > Unfortunately I haven't used gentoo for some time, so can't remember the > way to do this or couldn't even be sure that it would be the same after > such a length of time. The documentation on portage should give this > information, it did back when I used gentoo. > > Michael Whapples > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:35 -0500, Garrett Klein wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> >> When updating gentoo this morning, I noticed that portage was trying to >> install speakup. Now, I have my own version of speakup compiled into the >> kernel and don't think it's necessary for emerge to start compiling >> random modules. Thinking thus, I masked app-accessibility/speakup in >> /etc/portage/package.mask. Unfortunately, it complains that speechd-up >> requires it. Is this a bug in the speechd-up ebuild? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Garrett Klein Visit me and my girlfriend's blog at http://garrettk17.dyndns.org