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. -- Neil Bothwick This is a test of the emergency tagline stealing system.