How to prevent certain gnome apps from being installed ...

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:26:42 +0200
<kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:

> Every time gnome desktop is upgraded via portupgrade it reinstalls a
> bunch of applications that I had previously removed using pkg_delete.
> 
> For example, since I only use firefox as my browser there's no need
> to also have epiphany nor galeon. However, by default they are always
> reinstalled. 
> 
> I've tried using the HOLD_PKGS array in pkgtools.conf to prevent
> this, but to no avail.
> 
> What to do?

Have you tried:
 
WITH_GECKO=firefox