Howdy, Ok, so I use this syntax (in make.conf) to protect gentoo-source kernels, as I like to keep kernel codes around for quite a while:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources" It works just fine. Today, I have many many ugly and hacked java projects on my "munge" system. I have spend countless hours hacking at java; so I do not wish for any dev-java codes to be removed by --depclean, but the others can be cleaned up. I have not been able to find a way to (inside of make.conf) to prevent these dev-java/* ebuild removals. Insight, discussion and syntax snippents are all welcome, that will allow me to protect *java* from depclean. James
