On 6/29/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> The question was how to avoid doing that. A custom meta ebu
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > 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.
It's not really an ebuild, a meta ebuild is just a li
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
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
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 cate
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
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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 y
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:29:58 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
> Yes, I know about that. What I want is a way to ignore dependencies
> the same way I ignore updates using package.mask and package.unmask.
> For example, the gnome meta-package depends on evolution and epiphany,
> though none of them are a
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 gs
Bruno Lustosa schreef:
> 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
On 6/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> have a look at -> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly
> under "Maintaining Packages" they describe how to unmask a package using
> /etc/portage/package.unmask
> the same is possible with /etc/portage/package.mask where u can
hello,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:54:24AM -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
> 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
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.
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Bruno
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