On Tuesday 29 July 2014 12:19:14 behrouz khosravi wrote: > oh my bad! > Believe me, I did an honest mistake! and I am very sorry for that. > Thanks for you help and again, may apologies. > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > > I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a > > > subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I > > > dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. > > > > Please do not top-post > > Please do not hijack threads. > > > > If you have a new question to ask, start a new thread, don't use a thread > > dedicated to a different question. > > > > The short answer to your question is "no" - unless you want to start > > messing with RSYNC_OPTS in make.conf to add exclude directives, but that > > could break dependency resolution.
And besides, a few gnome packages are needed by other parts of the system. My KDE box, for example, has gnome-base/libglade and gnome-base/librsvg: So you shouldn't want to do it anyway. -- Regards Peter
