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From: Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eliminating packages/ebuilds from the portage tree
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:51:35
Message-Id: 49DD8CD9.3080809@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eliminating packages/ebuilds from the portage tree by Eray Aslan
1 Eray Aslan wrote:
2 > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:52:18AM -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
3 >> There are a couple of packages (ebuilds) in the portage tree that I
4 >> would like to eliminate completely from my system and not get them back
5 >> after an emerge --sync. Is this possible?
6 >
7 > You can exclude part of the tree with PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS in
8 > /etc/make.conf:
9 >
10 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5
11 >
12 Great. That should take care of some troublesome packages. Say I can
13 delete these
14
15 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/media-gfx/p???view
16 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/media-gfx/p???view
17 /usr/portage/media-gfx/p???view
18
19 modify make.conf, and add the package name to the exclusion file.
20
21 Thanks,
22
23 --
24 Valmor