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

["Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>]

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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