Perhaps a better way might be to ask the developers about creating a separate protected list, the sole content of which would be exclusions. This might be helpful for anybody trying to strip an installation to the lightest weight possible (and keep it that way). It's just a thought, and might show my ignorance.
-rex > -----Original Message----- > From: William Hubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:17 AM > To: Kurt V. Hindenburg > Cc: Gentoo > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ftp/iptables always in emerge world > > > Hi Kurt, > > If someone else out here knows something I don't, feel free > to jump in. > > The system packages are part of the profile for your > architecture which is part of the portage tree. You could > remove the "*" from the ftp and iptables lines in > /etc/make.profile/packkages, but it will be put back in the > next time you do an emerge sync, so there really isn't a way > to get rid of them other than to ask the developers to take > them out of the system profile. > > William > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:51:28PM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:08 pm, William Hubbs wrote: > > | Hi all, > > | > > | Yes, iptables and ftp are in system. > > | > > Next question then is why? Not every system needs > them...seems rather > > odd...anyway to prevent them from showing up in emerge world? > > -- > > > > Kurt > > --- > > There is no good and evil; there is only power. > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
