[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/08/2009 11:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> I will need to perform an "emerge -e world" on a system.  However, I
>> would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild
>> without uninstalling them.  Does portage provide for that?
>
>
> No.
>
> -e is intended to rebuild *eveything*, not "everything except something".
>
> You need to take the long way round and find everything in /var/db/pkg,
> compile a list of everything there, remove the ones to be excluded and
> redirect the whole list to emerge. It might even fit on one command line.

I just thought of something.  I can apparently just quickpgk them, 
unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again.