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 1E12Lz-0002gv-QU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:35:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j75DVr3I013886; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:31:53 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j75DHqhX006228 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:17:52 GMT Received: (qmail 44247 invoked by uid 0); 5 Aug 2005 13:18:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 5 Aug 2005 13:18:44 -0000 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:16:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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 X-Archives-Salt: ea9b8185-5d90-466b-bec5-6d1022f9501b X-Archives-Hash: e01440b169e66793a48839c8377bb421 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. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list