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Subject: Re: Skipping certain ports, no upgrade of installed packages ...
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On Sunday 13 August 2006 12:02, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> How can prevent a given package from being reinstalled during the next
> portupgrade when I want to delete permanently?
>
> An example is the Galeon browser. Since it also appears in the
> gnome2-fifth-toe makefile t will automatically be rebuilt.

IIRC fifth-toe is just a metaport, ie just a set dependencies. If you 
deinstall fifth-toe and  Galeon, all the othe other ports that fifth-toe 
depends on will still be there as independent leaf-ports.