OK, thanks I will try that and see what it does.

on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 > wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi.  I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a
 > > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how
 > > do I accomplish this?
 > 
 > You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a
 > look at "man 5 portage". For your case, it's basically a line like
 > 
 > >pkg-category/package-0.0.1
 > 
 > assuming you want to keep 0.0.1.
 > 
 > 
 > -hwh
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