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

2009-04-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 09 April 2009 07:48:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 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

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

2009-04-09 Thread Eray Aslan
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:32:22AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: 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 :) The OP said a couple of

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

2009-04-08 Thread 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