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

[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

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 :)