[gentoo-dev] Re: Remove package from system set in custom profile

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Canek Peláez Valdés posted on Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:26:22 -0600 as
excerpted:

> Hi; I'm trying to make a custom profile, and I need to remove a package
> from the system set. Is there a way I can do this without editing
> /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages?
> 
> Sorry if this is the wrong place for asking such a question.

FWIW, gentoo-dev is for development related questions.  The right place 
would be the gentoo-user list.  Not really right but better than the 
general gentoo-dev list would be the portage-devel list.  

Never-the-less and not to send you away empty-handed, yes of course 
there's a way to override it locally.  Gentoo wouldn't be gentoo 
otherwise. =:^)

See the portage (5) manpage, in particular, a search on
"/etc/portage/profile" in that manpage, plus the note under the packages 
file description (in the /etc/make.profile/ section) about removing 
packages from the system set.

More specifically, here's my /etc/portage/profile/packages:

# I don't need these
-*sys-apps/busybox
-*sys-apps/module-init-tools

If the package is listed as a dependency somewhere as well, you may need 
to add an entry to packages.provided in the same dir, as well.  For 
example, from mine (I build everything I need into the kernel,
no kernel modules so no module-init-tools needed to load them, either):

sys-apps/module-init-tools-9999

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