Daniel Iliev wrote:
5) The best reason for manual removing individual packages from the world set is to prevent them from upgrading.
I wouldn't call that a good reason. /etc/portage is there for that kind of thing. If you remove a package from world, and nothing depends on it, then it'll get swept up next time you --depclean without remembering to put it back first. If you remove a package from world, and something depends on it, it'll get upgraded anyway next time you -u or -uD.
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