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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