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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:44:58
Message-Id: b41005390802140244i32b31bd6p700694d5c5671a59@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall by Lanza Fabrizio
1 On 2/14/08, Lanza Fabrizio <Fabrizio.Lanza@××××××.it> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Hi,
5 > I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge).
6
7 Er, manually meaning 'I want to delete anything it installed by hand'?
8 or 'I want to run the phases by hand'?
9
10 Why doesn't emerge -C work for this case?
11
12 > How do I
13 > tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it is)? (I basically
14 > need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.)
15
16 emerge <package> will reinstall it...
17
18 >
19 > Another good question is: how does portage know that a package is actually
20 > installed?
21 >
22 > Thank you.
23 --
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