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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 06/11/2009 07:22 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> "emerge --depclean" always wants to remove all but the most recent
>> version of gentoo-sources. I read the manpage and can't figure out how
>> to exclude this package. The manpage states:
>>
>> "Packages that are part of the world set will always be kept."
>
> If you read the man page (man emerge) you'll arrive at:
>
>  emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-1.2.3-r4

That is what I'm already doing (recording version-specific atom in my
world file). I was trying to find a more generic way, that will
prevent me from the need to specify exact versions. Thanks :)