From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25775 invoked by uid 1002); 19 May 2003 18:51:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12231 invoked from network); 19 May 2003 18:51:08 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Gentoo-Dev In-Reply-To: <8665o6g4yi.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> References: <8665o6g4yi.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-RPENxr2WydziWd/xQS8g" Organization: Message-Id: <1053370360.7862.8.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 19 May 2003 20:52:40 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild X-Archives-Salt: 38077bd1-38a6-4f2f-bf33-96a9ba5f46a6 X-Archives-Hash: f2b9e0cb9f3ccc392f4db1a37ff7c647 --=-RPENxr2WydziWd/xQS8g Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 20:35, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Greetings: >=20 > 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. =20 >=20 > 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? >=20 Mask it in package.mask, and then remove it. Cheers, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-RPENxr2WydziWd/xQS8g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+ySf4qburzKaJYLYRAiV6AJ9tIKb6OaFSuMA3J6d4Q/AYDsuTMACcCjf/ BtRROUqSRqXGWjv/DmbqKUI= =ek6S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-RPENxr2WydziWd/xQS8g--