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From: Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to acchieve the opposite of 'provided'...so to say ?
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:54:22
Message-Id: 20120219175127.4785d41a@mini
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to acchieve the opposite of 'provided'...so to say ? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:44:58 +0200
2 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:35:32 +0100
5 > meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
6 >
7 > >
8 > > Hi,
9 > >
10 > > I want to make certain packages immune against "emerge --depclean"
11 > > even when startet without "--pretend" (or other actions to remove
12 > > packages which emerge evaluates as obsoloted and no longe in use).
13 > >
14 > > How can I acchieve this?
15 >
16 > Put those packages in world
17 >
18 > If you don't want to clutter your world file, create a custom set
19 > in /etc/portage/sets/ and put that set in world. Same overall effect
20 > with some extra nice categorization
21 >
22 >
23 >
24
25 emerge --noreplace <package name>. If you do it that way you will not
26 have to rebuild it!
27
28 --
29
30 Willie Matthews
31 matthews.willie@×××××.com