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On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Phill MV wrote: |
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> After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type |
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> emerge -uva world. |
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> Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few |
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> 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). |
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> I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my system. |
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> All things considered, compiling these two is a waste of space, bandwidth, |
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> time and electricity. |
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> How do I block these two from being compiled, despite the fact that they are |
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> listed as 'dependancies' in packages I use? |
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You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask |
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"man portage" for more info. |
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