Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[Tim Igoe <tim@igoe.me.uk>]

Phill MV wrote:

> After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and 
> type emerge -uva world.
>
> Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few 
> 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox).
> I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my 
> system. All things considered, compiling these two is a waste of 
> space, bandwidth, time and electricity.
>
> How do I block these two from being compiled, despite the fact that 
> they are listed as 'dependancies' in packages I use?

Instead of using Gnome, try using the gnome-light package. It comes 
wihtout the large dependancies that the normal gnome does, but you have 
to remmeber to install any extras that you might need  (file-roller, 
games, tools etc)

Tim

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