Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that > > it will updated but not depclean out those packages. > A set can be simply a list of packages in a file in /etc/portage/sets. Ok so I created this file (644): /etc/portage/sets/dev-java I put a list of file in there, here are a few: dev-java/log4j dev-java/xpp2 dev-java/xpp3 dev-java/jaxme java-virtuals/stax-api <snip> I tried all sorts of --depclean syntax variants but it did not protect the files listed in the file from removal. I modified my make.conf like so: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources @dev-java " Now every rendition of depclean usage just wants to remove these files. It feels like there is a working mechanism here, but I'm struggling to find the exact method to protect these files from depclean, not identify them form deep cleansing. What am I missing? James
