On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:30:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Have you considered simply not installing them at all? If you don't want > apache, cups, syslog-ng and bind you don't take any special steps, you > simply don't emerge them.
No, but those are single packages, more or less. KDE is hundreds of packages - not the same scale at all. > Unless of course you do want kde:3.5 (I don't recall if you mentioned that > or not). Yes, where a GUI is installed it's kde:3.5, and I want to keep it, except on a test box where it can be kept safely confined. > OT: I really like kde:4 myself, but it's such a different product to > kde:3.5 that I honestly feel it's official name should have been kde4. If > the kde devs had done that, your issue would simply never have happened. > This versioning is causing problems for many people, you are not the only > one wanting to avoid kde:4 Oh woe! I've just run a sync and found another 25 of them. The other day I put 13 entries into package.mask and that held the fort for the time; now I have another battle to fight. There will be more, too. What I need is an automask to complement autounmask, or perhaps a kde4 USE flag. -- Rgds Peter
