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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:58:18 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: |
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> This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of |
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> *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be |
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> very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild |
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> (and dependencies) would always be kept. |
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You can, by adding ">cate-gory/package-version" |
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to /etc/portage/package.mask. As long as the package is installed, a copy |
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of the ebuild will stay in /var/db/pkg. Portage never forces you to |
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upgrade anything. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Windoze95 Quote: Why is the Pentium 166 so fast? - Its for booting |
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faster, if Windows crashed again. |
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