From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0y0o-0007X6-Nx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 08:57:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j758soYw027035; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:54:50 GMT Received: from mail.igoe.me.uk (igoe.me.uk [195.137.39.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j758mcVU014045 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:48:38 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.igoe.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4522088072 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:48:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.igoe.me.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (linuxbox [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07502-02 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:48:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.0.251] (laptop.home.net [192.168.0.251]) by mail.igoe.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09908806E for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:48:27 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42F3280A.3080800@igoe.me.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:49:14 +0100 From: Tim Igoe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at igoe.me.uk X-Archives-Salt: 18e36447-e353-45e4-8425-aca4550b3477 X-Archives-Hash: 28c06da2832bdf459280395474fa82cf 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list