Hi Phill, > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Igoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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
