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 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 :)
The OP said "a couple of packages", so package.mask is the best bet. PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS is probably not the best way - if one of those packages is in a DEPEND that is needed somewhere, portage will throw a hissy fit about missing stuff. If masked, at least you get a parseable error message -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
