On 8/12/07, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/11/07, Rumi Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I've got a couple of suggestions for emerge: > > > > 1.) I apparently cannot exclude one or two packages from a large > > emerge action. For example if I say 'emerge -upv world' or > > 'emerge -Dupv xorg-x11' it may pull in some large updates I do > > not want to do, like gcc or glibc but there is no such thing as > > an exclusion list like 'emerge -Dupv xorg-x11 --except gcc glibc' > > to stop it from emerging these but let it do everything else. > > add them to /etc/portage/package.mask That and that package.provided hack would work, but they are not nearly as nice as the feature Rumi suggested would be. I have run into the same frustration in the past and I would find that feature quite useful.
I suppose this comes down to weighing the utility of such a feature against the amount of effort which would go into adding it to Portage. I do not know enough to make an informed decision on that point. Still, I think it is worth discussing rather than dismissing it with a hack. -- Nathan Smith Gentoo/PowerPC AT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
