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Hi Fredrik,
> Here's a portage question that I guess is quite elementary, but I
> haven't been able to find an answer to it on my own:
>
> If, when I emerge -Duva world, it calculates a package that I, for
> any reason, would like to delay/not emerge at all, how would I do
> to emerge all the packages except that one. This far, I've been
> running emerge -1va on all the others in the list (manually, that
> is), but I'm getting quite tired of that method, and I'm guessing
> that portage has some way of avoiding it.
try this one (example with gcc):
echo ">sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1-r1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

Where gcc-4.0.1-r1 is the version you want to be installed and never
updated.

Is this what you want?

- -daniel
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