Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove a single binary package
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:11:23
Message-Id: 201402030757.22345.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove a single binary package by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sunday 02 Feb 2014 11:36:31 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 13:45:27 +0000, Mick wrote:
3 > > If I use rm to manually get rid of a single package, all its metadata
4 > > will still be left in /usr/portage/packages/Packages. Does this
5 > > matter? Which function uses the information this file and how might
6 > > it be affected if the binary package has been removed manually?
7 >
8 > It probably doesn't matter, but emaint -f binhost will clean it up.
9
10 Thanks! I can't recall last time I used emaint - had forgotten about this
11 command.
12 --
13 Regards,
14 Mick

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