Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I will need to perform an "emerge -e world" on a system. However, I > would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild > without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? No. -e is intended to rebuild *evey

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I will need to perform an "emerge -e world" on a system. However, I > would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild > without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? > > > You could mask the version higher than what you have or just mask t

[gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I will need to perform an "emerge -e world" on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that?