Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Lanza Fabrizio <Fabrizio.Lanza@××××××.it>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:19:42
Message-Id: 8DE0084FFD169E4BBBC26963F0E02CA4018A5924@ms02insiel.insiel.it
1 Hi,
2 I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge). How
3 do I tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it is)? (I
4 basically need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.)
5
6 Another good question is: how does portage know that a package is
7 actually installed?
8
9 Thank you.

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>