[gentoo-dev] Re: Remove package from system set in custom profile

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi; I'm trying to make a custom profile, and I need to remove a
> package from the system set. Is there a way I can do this without
> editing /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages?

I see now that I can copy the whole /usr/portage/profiles dir to my
overlay, edit base/packages there, and link /etc/make.profile to the
profile in my overlay. This has several drawbacks:

1. I need to keep in syncro the profiles dir in my overlay to the one
in the portage tree.
2. I probably don't need a whole copy of /usr/portage/profiles.
3. It sure is ugly as hell.

Is there a better way to do it?

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México