Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

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[gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[Phill MV]

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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?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[Tim Igoe]

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

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RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[Michael Kintzios]

Hi Phill,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Igoe [mailto:tim@igoe.me.uk] 
> Sent: 05 August 2005 09:49
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
> 
> 
> 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

 .. or you could try:
======================
# mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile
# echo "net-www/mozilla" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
======================

Of course the 'mkdir' part is only needed if you don't already have a
/etc/portage/profile directory.  Not sure if you can put
package.provided directly under /etc/portage.  Someone who knows better
the intricacies of the latest portage versions could advise on this.
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[Phill MV]

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Exactly what I wanted!
Thanks.

On 05/08/05, Michael Kintzios <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Phill,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Igoe [mailto:tim@igoe.me.uk]
> > Sent: 05 August 2005 09:49
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
> >
> >
> > 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
> 
> .. or you could try:
> ======================
> # mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile
> # echo "net-www/mozilla" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
> ======================
> 
> Of course the 'mkdir' part is only needed if you don't already have a
> /etc/portage/profile directory. Not sure if you can put
> package.provided directly under /etc/portage. Someone who knows better
> the intricacies of the latest portage versions could advise on this.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[A. Khattri]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, 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?

You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask

"man portage" for more info.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[Phill MV]

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To my experience the package requiring it would simply not install.


You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask
> 
> "man portage" for more info.
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

[Holly Bostick]

Phill MV schreef:
>>     You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask
>> 
>>     "man portage" for more info.
>> 
> 
> To my experience the package requiring it would simply not install.

No, you're right.

The solution to this specific problem (which I also have had, since I
use neither Mozilla nor Evo) is to:

1) unmerge gnome. This will not unmerge any programs (GNOME will still
work), but will remove the metapackage handle which has mozilla and evo
as dependencies (mozilla and evo will become orphaned dependencies, as
you have uninstalled the package that depends on them);

2) unmerge evo, evo dataserver (if you don't want it), epiphany (which
depends on mozilla) and mozilla itself (assuming you have nothing else
that depends on it; most mozilla-dependent individual programs, such as
the Liferea newsreader, now have the capability to depend on firefox
instead), and any other programs installed specifically by the gnome
metapackage that you may not want (sound-juicer, gstreamer, totem-- if
you still want totem, you can recompile it +xine so you can still get
rid of gstreamer if you don't like that backend);

2a) make sure that you have no "mozilla" or "eds" USE flags enabled
(afaics, eds must specifically be set as -eds in /etc/make.conf; it's
apparently a new/replacement USE flag which drags in Evo Data Server and
Mozilla, and it appears to be set by default as on for applications like
gaim and gnome-panel, which I discovered when running yesterday's emerge
-uaDtv world). If you have to change any USE flags, hold the emerge
-uaDNtv world till after the next step:

3) emerge gnome-light. This will also not emerge any packages, but will
"un-orphan" all the gnome desktop packages that are currently installed
(but were orphaned by your uninstall of the gnome metapackage);

4) run emerge -uaDtNv world if you changed any USE flags in step 2a (or
even if you didn't, just to be safe).


This should enable you to update GNOME normally, without having to worry
about evo and/or Mozilla being dragged in every time you try.

Hope this helps.

Holly



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