On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 20:35, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> Is there a [documented?] procedure for removing packages from the
> portage tree?  I am talking about removing an entire directory, not
> just a versioned ebuild.  
> 
> For instance, if sys-apps/mkisofs were to be replaced by
> app-cdr/cdrtools, what would I need to do, other than make sure that
> no other package depends on mkisofs and delete the files from CVS?
> 

Mask it in package.mask, and then remove it.


Cheers,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa