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On Thursday 14 February 2008, Lanza Fabrizio wrote: |
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> I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge). |
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not supported |
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> How |
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> do I tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it is)? (I |
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> basically need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.) |
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you unmerge it ... if you insist on modifying the backend information, then |
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see: |
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> Another good question is: how does portage know that a package is |
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> actually installed? |
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portage maintains installed package information in /var/db/pkg/ |
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-mike |