Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] portage revisited

[Bob Phan]

On 14 Mar 2002, Joshua Hansen wrote:

> I'm thinking about writing a script (and the reason I bring this up is
> if it already exists, point me to it so i don't waste the time) that
> uses the qpkg --dups command and then lists and then asks if you want to
> remove certain packages. Maybe even include an option to kill all
> duplicates and just have a little file that contains things like
> FreeType and DB.
I ran this yesterday.  Cludgy, but works. :)

emerge --unmerge --safe `qpkg --dups | grep -v linux | grep -v db | grep
-v freetype | grep -v bison`

Disclaimer:
This may not work for you, probably won't, and could potentially screw
something up. etc. etc.

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