Re: [gentoo-dev] little function to delete packages ...

[Geert Bevin]

Hi,

you could also have used 'emerge --unmerge' which support dependency
matching allowing you to for example unmerge every application lower
than a certain version. It also defaults to not erase the latest version
of an application, but letting you have a working version on your system
at all times. Read 'emerge --help' for exact details.

Best regards,

Geert Bevin

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 15:09, Juergen Ilse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After "rsyncing" und "updating" my system, i wanted to delete old and
> unnecessary packages. "ebuild" needs the complete filename of the file
> in /var/db/pkg/*/*/*.ebuild to delete the package. I had to type the
> full path every time, i wanted to delete an old version of a package ...
> So i made a little shell-function (and placed it in roots .bashrc):
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