Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Burton Samograd <kruhft@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:36:32
Message-Id: 20020913153623.GA16963@kruhft.dyndns.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories by Doug Goldstein
1 On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:45:01PM +0000, Doug Goldstein wrote:
2 > Even if you mask out the directories... emerge will still update and
3 > download the ebuilds when you rsync. Masked doesn't mean it's removed.
4 > It just means it's hidden from production level systems. People can
5 > still install these programs and use them.
6 >
7
8 So, since it doesn't seem to be possible to prune the portage tree,
9 would there be any problems with sharing the directory with annother
10 machine using NFS or something similar?
11
12 burton

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Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@××××××.nl>