From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0yW8-0002WP-Nz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:29:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j759RFaY032215; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:27:15 GMT Received: from lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j759LZta013326 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:21:35 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AAF17E1DD for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:22:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec02.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.183]) by localhost (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14364-08 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:22:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec02.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmcodec02.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D4CFA82D00 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:22:24 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=aDL58iqapsEz9aLk30RXs0yzHP5rVjKwik1nHxNQ1juCi7SepIK1/cQudgRKkx7nNe0UdmMdUz0hNrp3xaD47LVSxdV6WtLBGiE8VQsVfDsIieVDuKO2aomo4Nq5hxzP0StvXoevh4a4bEkm/aD7FqclwKF8tTtJO2dgBHliG3M=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages? Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:22:20 +0100 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <42F3280A.3080800@igoe.me.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: efbc5675-015b-4792-84d2-fa1e5b026cc7 X-Archives-Hash: 43ad9cf28b7544d7c1de9cb450215490 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list