From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C005138010 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8635FE0878; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f179.google.com (mail-ea0-f179.google.com [209.85.215.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD3CEE086E for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f179.google.com with SMTP id f15so1978322eak.10 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:27:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jH8JQm+vEaDEvPtt4b2feOexlf5n6FTq5zjYSem8u4A=; b=mJ7CImOEBtcYwDmqMZqnwSt0XLD8Gw9M1kmganS8dTF1dMFVpChIX56U2AWOuYrqXD LWNt7hius9Uieo5SamvURlK9KLXgzAAAUvLjZW6saJ25sjoazzVCcPB/HYevgBVeA6Zi gxbkgNULu4pEHLKzA0qRDavH3FqXhbXEzc1zy41YQOp9KfFdommpChNdy7SwBTXjAE9p EfUEBQdy4AGsBszEs3uiHnLTRkmxTSWQMuwnBWRqM7NOrekhf3LmGnu9l49xSuy+R+QY +wucRuBK+vULc5AGpY9vyoc7DEVdwsizVfiBSnxxT2NKiYoQtxg5rlupOlzQn59N5Tet /pyA== X-Received: by 10.14.5.137 with SMTP id 9mr12751870eel.30.1364142447483; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.11] ([88.151.72.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m46sm14127831eeo.16.2013.03.24.09.27.25 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <514F291B.9020105@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:26:03 +0100 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1f8ae359-53fb-485e-bb07-2486bf1e38a9 X-Archives-Hash: 662cc67553fdaf51d8c53eea98fb36ed Hi Gentoo-users, what an unpleasant surprise awaited me today when I tried to update my systems: gentoo-sources want to be installed everywhere! ------------------- # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse --verbose world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bc-1.06.95 USE="readline -libedit -static" 284 kB [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-python-20111108 [20100321] 64 kB [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7.10:3.7.10 USE="-build -deblob -symlink" 68,335 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/linux-sources-0 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-apps/kmod-12-r1 USE="tools zlib -debug -doc -lzma -static-libs" KERNEL="(linux%*)" 0 kB Total: 5 packages (1 upgrade, 3 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 68,682 kB ------------------- Why in the heavens name should be gentoo-sources pulled in as dependency of whatever? I have 6 nearly identical machines, and use only one for kernel compilation, so why should I now have gentoo-sources on every system? Can I somehow prevent it? Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.