[gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type emerge -uva world. Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my system. All things considered, compiling these two is a waste of space, bandwidth, time and electricity. How do I block these two from being compiled, despite the fact that they are listed as 'dependancies' in packages I use?
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
Phill MV wrote: After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type emerge -uva world. Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my system. All things considered, compiling these two is a waste of space, bandwidth, time and electricity. How do I block these two from being compiled, despite the fact that they are listed as 'dependancies' in packages I use? Instead of using Gnome, try using the gnome-light package. It comes wihtout the large dependancies that the normal gnome does, but you have to remmeber to install any extras that you might need (file-roller, games, tools etc) Tim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
Hi Phill, -Original Message- From: Tim Igoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 August 2005 09:49 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages? Phill MV wrote: After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type emerge -uva world. Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my system. All things considered, compiling these two is a waste of space, bandwidth, time and electricity. How do I block these two from being compiled, despite the fact that they are listed as 'dependancies' in packages I use? Instead of using Gnome, try using the gnome-light package. It comes wihtout the large dependancies that the normal gnome does, but you have to remmeber to install any extras that you might need (file-roller, games, tools etc) Tim .. or you could try: == # mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile # echo net-www/mozilla /etc/portage/profile/package.provided == Of course the 'mkdir' part is only needed if you don't already have a /etc/portage/profile directory. Not sure if you can put package.provided directly under /etc/portage. Someone who knows better the intricacies of the latest portage versions could advise on this. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Phill MV wrote: After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type emerge -uva world. Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my system. All things considered, compiling these two is a waste of space, bandwidth, time and electricity. How do I block these two from being compiled, despite the fact that they are listed as 'dependancies' in packages I use? You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask man portage for more info. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
Exactly what I wanted! Thanks.On 05/08/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Phill, -Original Message- From: Tim Igoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 August 2005 09:49 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages? Phill MV wrote: After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type emerge -uva world. Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my system. All things considered, compiling these two is a waste of space, bandwidth, time and electricity. How do I block these two from being compiled, despite the fact that they are listed as 'dependancies' in packages I use? Instead of using Gnome, try using the gnome-light package. It comes wihtout the large dependancies that the normal gnome does, but you have to remmeber to install any extras that you might need(file-roller, games, tools etc) Tim .. or you could try:==# mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile # echo net-www/mozilla /etc/portage/profile/package.provided==Of course the 'mkdir' part is only needed if you don't already have a/etc/portage/profile directory.Not sure if you can put package.provided directly under /etc/portage.Someone who knows betterthe intricacies of the latest portage versions could advise on this.--Regards,Mick-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?
Phill MV schreef: You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask man portage for more info. To my experience the package requiring it would simply not install. No, you're right. The solution to this specific problem (which I also have had, since I use neither Mozilla nor Evo) is to: 1) unmerge gnome. This will not unmerge any programs (GNOME will still work), but will remove the metapackage handle which has mozilla and evo as dependencies (mozilla and evo will become orphaned dependencies, as you have uninstalled the package that depends on them); 2) unmerge evo, evo dataserver (if you don't want it), epiphany (which depends on mozilla) and mozilla itself (assuming you have nothing else that depends on it; most mozilla-dependent individual programs, such as the Liferea newsreader, now have the capability to depend on firefox instead), and any other programs installed specifically by the gnome metapackage that you may not want (sound-juicer, gstreamer, totem-- if you still want totem, you can recompile it +xine so you can still get rid of gstreamer if you don't like that backend); 2a) make sure that you have no mozilla or eds USE flags enabled (afaics, eds must specifically be set as -eds in /etc/make.conf; it's apparently a new/replacement USE flag which drags in Evo Data Server and Mozilla, and it appears to be set by default as on for applications like gaim and gnome-panel, which I discovered when running yesterday's emerge -uaDtv world). If you have to change any USE flags, hold the emerge -uaDNtv world till after the next step: 3) emerge gnome-light. This will also not emerge any packages, but will un-orphan all the gnome desktop packages that are currently installed (but were orphaned by your uninstall of the gnome metapackage); 4) run emerge -uaDtNv world if you changed any USE flags in step 2a (or even if you didn't, just to be safe). This should enable you to update GNOME normally, without having to worry about evo and/or Mozilla being dragged in every time you try. Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
