On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Copy the gnome ebuild to something like mygnome and remove the > > unwanted dependencies. > Right. I've resisted that option as I don't want to be an ebuild > maintainer of any sort.
It's not really an ebuild, a meta ebuild is just a list of packages you want installed, it doesn't install anything itself. > Presuming I did that wouldn't I also have to pay attention to new > versions of Gnome coming out and update my ebuild over time? No, because emerge --deep --update world will always go for the newest version of any dependencies. > If new > dependencies were added for Gnome-2.12 I'd have to add or remove > things in my ebuild. Not really, because you would only add things you want to add. If a new program was added to GNOME and you didn't want to use it, you would have to do nothing. > Being a user type I think it's better for me to > just use gnome-light and add what I want when I think I need it. The question was how to avoid doing that. A custom meta ebuild is one answer. -- Neil Bothwick We are upping our standards - so up yours.
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