[gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others
How can I make sure that when I upgrade, packages like evolution and epiphany (along with mozilla) won't get installed? Is there a (clean) way to prevent them from being installed? They seem to be tied to gnome, but as I don't use them, I have no need to waste time compiling any of them. -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others
On 6/29/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it you emerged the gnome meta-package (emerge gnome), which requires evo, epiphany and mozilla (among others), rather than gnome-light, which does not. Yes, I have done that. Portage won't install them now. Unmerged totem and its gst-plugin* (I use mplayer/gmplayer). My processor will thank me for the idle time :) Thank you. -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: That's it. The only major applications that I can think of that are installed by gnome and not by gnome-light which would remain on the system as orphans are Totem (and it's gstreamer or xine dependencies), and possibly beagle, if that's installed. If you want to keep them, you can re-emerge them alone, so they will be put in your world file, and thus normally updateable. Faster way: echo category/package /var/lib/portage/world -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:27:21 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundström wrote: If you want to keep them, you can re-emerge them alone, so they will be put in your world file, and thus normally updateable. Faster way: echo category/package /var/lib/portage/world or emerge -n package -- Neil Bothwick I am Superconductor Borg, assimilation resistance is futile. pgpqxUZXBLebJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others
On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:27:21 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundström wrote: If you want to keep them, you can re-emerge them alone, so they will be put in your world file, and thus normally updateable. Faster way: echo category/package /var/lib/portage/world or emerge -n package -n is cool but I think the interestign question is whether there would be value in emerge being able to do something like emerge gnome but leave out Evolution. To get what I wanted here I've emerged gnome-light and then added about 5 or 6 packages by hand. Not a big deal but it would be nice to be able to get all of Gnome and just leave out the parts my family won't be using on their machines. Thanks, Mark converting son's FC2 box to Gentoo Knecht -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:52:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: -n is cool but I think the interestign question is whether there would be value in emerge being able to do something like emerge gnome but leave out Evolution. To get what I wanted here I've emerged gnome-light and then added about 5 or 6 packages by hand. Not a big deal but it would be nice to be able to get all of Gnome and just leave out the parts my family won't be using on their machines. Copy the gnome ebuild to something like mygnome and remove the unwanted dependencies. -- Neil Bothwick There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. pgpV5zIK8BpJh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others
On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:52:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: -n is cool but I think the interestign question is whether there would be value in emerge being able to do something like emerge gnome but leave out Evolution. To get what I wanted here I've emerged gnome-light and then added about 5 or 6 packages by hand. Not a big deal but it would be nice to be able to get all of Gnome and just leave out the parts my family won't be using on their machines. Copy the gnome ebuild to something like mygnome and remove the unwanted dependencies. Right. I've resisted that option as I don't want to be an ebuild maintainer of any sort. Presuming I did that wouldn't I also have to pay attention to new versions of Gnome coming out and update my ebuild over time? If new dependencies were added for Gnome-2.12 I'd have to add or remove things in my ebuild. Being a user type I think it's better for me to just use gnome-light and add what I want when I think I need it. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
