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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:15:11 +0100
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On Tuesday 29 July 2014 12:19:14 behrouz khosravi wrote:
> oh my bad!
> Believe me, I did an honest mistake! and I am very sorry for that.
> Thanks for you help and again, may apologies.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
> > > I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a
> > > subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I
> > > dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch.
> > 
> > Please do not top-post
> > Please do not hijack threads.
> > 
> > If you have a new question to ask, start a new thread, don't use a thread
> > dedicated to a different question.
> > 
> > The short answer to your question is "no" - unless you want to start
> > messing with RSYNC_OPTS in make.conf to add exclude directives, but that
> > could break dependency resolution.

And besides, a few gnome packages are needed by other parts of the system. My 
KDE box, for example, has gnome-base/libglade and gnome-base/librsvg:


So you shouldn't want to do it anyway.

-- 
Regards
Peter