Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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Just wondering, but shouldn't there be a way to make it so anything that tried 
to emerge mkisofs would instead emerge cdrtools? For example, if it was in a 
user's world file.

On Monday 19 May 2003 06:52 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> 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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