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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 23:14, Paul Smith wrote: |
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> Hi all; |
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> I see in the emerge man page that "unmerge" doesn't remove packages that |
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> depend on the package you're unmerging. |
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> But, that's the behavior I want! In Debian, for example, if I remove a |
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> package than anything that requires that package is also removed. I |
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> need this behavior from Portage as well. |
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> A read through the emerge man page didn't yield any help; is there any |
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> way to ask for a package _AND_ all packages it depends on be removed? |
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> A related question is this: suppose I upgrade a library. I have 5 |
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> packages installed that depend on that library. How can I get Portage |
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> to re-emerge those 5 packages after I've installed the new version of my |
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> library, so that the changes in the new library get picked up? |
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> In other words, I want a command that says "emerge this, and everything |
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> that depends on it". |
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> Any help? |
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emerge gentoolkit; qpkg -I -q PKGNAME |
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That will list all installed packages that depend on PKGNAME. It will not |
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automatically unmerge them for you, do some grepping for that. |
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Zack Gilburd |
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