On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés posted on Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:26:22 -0600 as > excerpted: > >> Hi; I'm trying to make a custom profile, and I need to remove a package >> from the system set. Is there a way I can do this without editing >> /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages? >> >> Sorry if this is the wrong place for asking such a question. > > FWIW, gentoo-dev is for development related questions. The right place > would be the gentoo-user list. Not really right but better than the > general gentoo-dev list would be the portage-devel list.
I would have that in mind next time. > Never-the-less and not to send you away empty-handed, yes of course > there's a way to override it locally. Gentoo wouldn't be gentoo > otherwise. =:^) > > See the portage (5) manpage, in particular, a search on > "/etc/portage/profile" in that manpage, plus the note under the packages > file description (in the /etc/make.profile/ section) about removing > packages from the system set. > > More specifically, here's my /etc/portage/profile/packages: > > # I don't need these > -*sys-apps/busybox > -*sys-apps/module-init-tools > > If the package is listed as a dependency somewhere as well, you may need > to add an entry to packages.provided in the same dir, as well. For > example, from mine (I build everything I need into the kernel, > no kernel modules so no module-init-tools needed to load them, either): > > sys-apps/module-init-tools-9999 That's exactly what I needed. Thanks. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
