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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem with "emerge system"
From:       Daniel Robbins <drobbins () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2001-11-27 7:20:50
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Jason wrote:

> Just recently I re partitioned my drive and (willingly) reinstalled Gentoo
> Linux.  The bootstrap went well and the rsync went well, however, when I went
> to emerge the system (pretend at first), it could not find the ebuild file
> for texinfo.  I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem.

This is a known problem that I mistakenly created.  It should have been fixed
1-2 days ago.  When did you try an emerge system?
> 
> Also..  In the base system packages, is it possible to exclude certain
> packages that I do not use such as gpm, isapnptools, efs2progs, lilo or grub
> without causing any dependancy issues?  If so...I would love some info on
> what file to edit so that "emerge system" will not install these files.

Do this:

cd /etc
rm make.profile
cp -r /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0_rc6 make.profile
cd make.profile
vim packages
(remove e2fsprogs (!), isapnptools)
then do an emerge system

You'll now have your own private system profile that will not get automatically
updated when /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0_rc6 gets updated, so you should
periodically check for fixes/updates.
> 
> Thank you very much...and keep up the great work with this excellent project!

You're welcome, and sorry that your emerge system didn't go smoothly for you.
Please let me know if you have any additional problems.  I want to make sure
that this texinfo problem no longer exists.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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