[gentoo-user] Re: eliminating packages/ebuilds from the portage tree

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 09 April 2009, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> There are a couple of packages (ebuilds) in the portage tree that I
>> would like to eliminate completely from my system and not get them back
>> after an emerge --sync. Is this possible?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Valmor
>
> is there a good reason to remove them, instead of masking?

If you like spending half a day masking hundreds and hundreds of 
packages using an inflated package.mask, then no, there's no good reason :)