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

[Valmor de Almeida]

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,

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Valmor

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

[Eray Aslan]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:52:18AM -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
 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?

You can exclude part of the tree with PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS in
/etc/make.conf:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=5

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Eray

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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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?

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

[Valmor de Almeida]

Eray Aslan wrote:

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:52:18AM -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
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?


You can exclude part of the tree with PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS in
/etc/make.conf:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=5

Great. That should take care of some troublesome packages. Say I can 
delete these


/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/media-gfx/p???view
/usr/portage/metadata/cache/media-gfx/p???view
/usr/portage/media-gfx/p???view

modify make.conf, and add the package name to the exclusion file.

Thanks,

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Valmor