[gentoo-user] Re: using package.provided

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 25/02/16 05:55, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the
newest version at each upgrade.

I'd instead recommend putting

  >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.2

in package.mask to stay with 4.1 (it's an LTS kernel) and always get the 
patches for that one.