On 15 March 2015 00:25:40 GMT+00:00, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> > > I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that 
> > > it will updated but not depclean out those packages.
> 
> > A set can be simply a list of packages in a file in
> /etc/portage/sets.
> 
> 
> Ok so I created this file (644): 
> /etc/portage/sets/dev-java
> 
> I put a list of file in there, here are a few:
> dev-java/log4j
> dev-java/xpp2
> dev-java/xpp3
> dev-java/jaxme
> java-virtuals/stax-api
> <snip>
> 
> I tried all sorts of --depclean  syntax variants but it did not
> protect the 
> files listed in the file from removal. I modified my make.conf like
> so:
> 
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources @dev-java " 
> 
> 
> Now every rendition of depclean usage just wants to remove these
> files.
> It feels like there is a working mechanism here, but I'm struggling
> to find the exact method to protect these files from depclean, not
> identify
> them form deep cleansing. What am I missing?
> 
> 
> 
> James

emerge - n @dev-java
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