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

[Stuart Bouyer]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:42:06 -0500
nealbirch <nealbirch@×××××.com> wrote:

> Blake Watters wrote:
>
<deletia>
> > 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
>
Slight variation on the above using xargs

 qpkg -I -nc -q gtk+ | grep / | cut -d/ -f2 | xargs emerge unmerge -p

of course remove the -p to actually unmerge.

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