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From: Blake Watters <sbw@×××××××.org>
To: gabor <gabor@××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] unmerge auto-uninstall dependent packages
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:44:36
Message-Id: 20030203133704.0475fc7b.sbw@ibiblio.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] unmerge auto-uninstall dependent packages by gabor
1 Make sure you have gentoolkit installed and then:
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3 qpkg -I -nc -q gtk+
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5 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.
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7 Blake
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9 On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:07:47 +0100
10 gabor <gabor@××××.net> wrote:
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12 > hi,
13 >
14 > i'm searching for a feature of the mandrake-urpmi system:
15 > when i do a "urpme gtk" on mandrake,
16 > it not only uninstalls gtk, but also removes all the packages that
17 > depend on gtk... so i don't have any broken dependencies on my computer.
18 >
19 > as far as i know a simple "emerge unmerge gtk" removes only gtk, and
20 > leaves all the gtk apps on the computer.
21 >
22 > is there a way to achieve what i need?
23 >
24 > thanks,
25 > gabor
26 > --
27 > That's life for you, said McDunn. Someone always waiting for someone
28 > who never comes home. Always someone loving something more than that
29 > thing loves them. And after awhile you want to destroy whatever
30 > that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.
31 > -- R. Bradbury, "The Fog Horn"
32 >
33 > --
34 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

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