Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove a package from a profile?

[foxfell]

Hi,
LMGFY, https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-963412-start-0.html

2017-07-11 15:07 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>:

> On 11/07/2017 13:51, Ста Деюс wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to remove a package from a profile? -- I try to remove
> > absolutely unnecessary to me openssh package from default/linux/x86
> > profile that beside each time necessity to compile, just reduces system
> > security. So, i did mask it, having created an openssh file
> > in /etc/portage/packages.mask dir. Removed already installed package
> > from the system and then tried to update the system. -- Openssh is
> > enlisted to be compiled/installed among other packages! So, what's the
> > recipe here?
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Sthu.
> >
>
>
> Yeah, you really don't want to do that.
>
> virtual/ssh is listed in the base profile, so every Gentoo system on the
> planet starts off with it included. It's the server and the client, so
> if you don't want the server running, then don't start it (your security
> argument doesn't really hold water), and the client is about the second
> most useful piece of software there is, up there with compilers and shells
>
> It's not a big package:
> $ equery size openssh
>  * net-misc/openssh-7.5_p1-r2
>          Total files : 70
>          Total size  : 5.68 MiB
>
> Compiles rather quickly too:
> $ genlop -t openssh
>  * net-misc/openssh
>      Tue Jul  4 04:43:52 2017 >>> net-misc/openssh-7.5_p1-r2
>        merge time: 53 seconds.
>
> So I think you are cargo-culting and trying to remove something with
> zero understanding of why it is there. But it annoys you
>
> But if you really want to shoot both feet off at the knees, read on:
>
> You can't modify a profile, nothing in them is optional. You have to
> take an existing profile then extend and modify it. Look at
> defaults/linux/x86/* and see how they extend x86.
>
> The magic line that does what you desire goes in a file called
> "packages", look at this example from prefix:
>
> $ cat ./prefix/linux/packages
> # Here we remove packages that default/linux/packages pulls in and have
> # no business being in Gentoo Prefix
> -*sys-apps/busybox
> -*sys-apps/util-linux
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
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