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Bug 4262 - Some kind of package frozen file should be added to portage.
Summary: Some kind of package frozen file should be added to portage.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-06-27 21:26 UTC by Matthew Daubenspeck
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:36 UTC (History)
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Description Matthew Daubenspeck 2002-06-27 21:26:09 UTC
Sorry. Bad choice of words. However, I think it may be helpful if there is some
way (like in a file) to list packages that I know I do not want, but are usually
added to the world upgrade anyway. kdegames and kdeedu for example.

If there was somewhere to mark these, other then by manually masking them each
time, it would be easy to NOT install unecessary packages.

This obviously could be a problem with depend checking, but there has to be a
way to mark packages that I know I do not want installed or upgraded.
Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-27 23:18:33 UTC
You can add:

<sys-apps/foo-0.0 

to /var/cache/edb/dep/world to do this.  Pretty sure that'll work.

If you don't want to upgrade, add:

<=sys-apps/foo-2.0 

... and that'll keep the version at 2.0 or below.