[gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg?

[Maxim Wexler]

Hi group,

emerge -av --depclean wants to remove
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 after a world update.

How do I prevent this? I've tried the --deselect and --noreplace
switches but that has the opposite effect I'm looking for.

Maxim