[gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? You could mask the version higher than what you have or just mask the

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? No. -e is intended to rebuild