[gentoo-user] Re: How to mask xfce 4.8?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-01-18, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:22:20 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> But that does nothing.  Do I have to individually mask all 20+
>> components of XFCE?
>
> Yes, but it's not difficult:
>
> qlist -ICv xfce-base/ | sed 's/^/~/' >/etc/portage/package.mask/xfce-48

Nice.

In my case, it masks exo and thunar when it doesn't need to, and it
misses appfinder (and presumably other extras).  I should spend some
time reading the qlist manpage.  [I still tend to use equery.] Adding
xfce-extras and then grepping for '-4.8.[0-9] would probably do the
trick.

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