On 10/31/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:13:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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> > I let the emerge run anyway last night, took about 2 hours for 143
> > packages, lots of them just fonts which install quickly. So now I guess
> > It'll have to be done again in a day or three.
>
> If you add X to /var/db/pkg/category/package-version/IUSE for each of
> the affected packages, portage won't try to emerge them again.
>
> It's a kludge, but it works if portage was only going to build the same
> files again.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
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>
>
A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile
masked.  Hmm...

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