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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:51:25
Message-Id: 1053370360.7862.8.camel@nosferatu.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild by Arcady Genkin
1 On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 20:35, Arcady Genkin wrote:
2 > Greetings:
3 >
4 > Is there a [documented?] procedure for removing packages from the
5 > portage tree? I am talking about removing an entire directory, not
6 > just a versioned ebuild.
7 >
8 > For instance, if sys-apps/mkisofs were to be replaced by
9 > app-cdr/cdrtools, what would I need to do, other than make sure that
10 > no other package depends on mkisofs and delete the files from CVS?
11 >
12
13 Mask it in package.mask, and then remove it.
14
15
16 Cheers,
17
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19
20 Martin Schlemmer
21 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
22 Cape Town, South Africa

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing an ebuild Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>