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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: update problems
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:08:15
Message-Id: loom.20150920T200359-741@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] update problems by Daniel Frey
1 Daniel Frey <djqfrey <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > For boost and ffmpeg, try running `equery depends <package>` and if no
5 > result comes back it wasn't installed from a dependency. If it does say
6 > another package is pulling it in, remove it from the world file by
7 > using: `emerge --deselect <package>` - in the case of boost it would be
8 > `emerge --deselect dev-libs/boost`.
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10 Yea, many of us forget the --oneshot option whilst admining about.....
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12 This is a recurring theme. Didn't somebody post a scipt a while
13 back to do this for you in one effort. Then you read the list result
14 and decide which do remove from the world file?
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16 I cannot seem to find that script....
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19 James

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update problems Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update problems Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>