Re: [gentoo-dev] unmerge auto-uninstall dependent packages

[nealbirch]

Blake Watters wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:07:47 +0100 gabor <gabor@××××.net> wrote:
>> i'm searching for a feature of the mandrake-urpmi system: when i do
>> a "urpme gtk" on mandrake, it not only uninstalls gtk, but also
>> removes all the packages that depend on gtk... so i don't have any
>> broken dependencies on my computer.
>>
>> as far as i know a simple "emerge unmerge gtk" removes only gtk,
>> and leaves all the gtk apps on the computer.
>>
>> is there a way to achieve what i need?
>
> Make sure you have gentoolkit installed and then:
>
> qpkg -I -nc -q gtk+
>
> will give you a list of packages that depend on gtk+. You can
> redirect to a file, clean it up, and then run it through xargs to
> remove them all at once.

Here is a one line wonder:

for i in `qpkg -I -nc -q gtk+ | grep /  | cut -d/ -f2`; do emerge 
unmerge $i; done




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