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
