On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:58:18 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: > This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of > *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be > very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild > (and dependencies) would always be kept.
You can, by adding ">cate-gory/package-version" to /etc/portage/package.mask. As long as the package is installed, a copy of the ebuild will stay in /var/db/pkg. Portage never forces you to upgrade anything. -- Neil Bothwick Windoze95 Quote: Why is the Pentium 166 so fast? - Its for booting faster, if Windows crashed again.
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