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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 19:16:39
Message-Id: 200305191917.06172.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild by Martin Schlemmer
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4 Just wondering, but shouldn't there be a way to make it so anything that tried
5 to emerge mkisofs would instead emerge cdrtools? For example, if it was in a
6 user's world file.
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8 On Monday 19 May 2003 06:52 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
9 > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 20:35, Arcady Genkin wrote:
10 > > Greetings:
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12 > > Is there a [documented?] procedure for removing packages from the
13 > > portage tree? I am talking about removing an entire directory, not
14 > > just a versioned ebuild.
15 > >
16 > > For instance, if sys-apps/mkisofs were to be replaced by
17 > > app-cdr/cdrtools, what would I need to do, other than make sure that
18 > > no other package depends on mkisofs and delete the files from CVS?
19 >
20 > Mask it in package.mask, and then remove it.
21 >
22 >
23 > Cheers,
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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild Dylan Carlson <absinthe@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>