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Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>It is not *currently* installed, you mean. But xmlto remains installed |
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>as a dependency of the uninstalled package. |
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>Does it (xmlto) appear in the output of an emerge deplclean -p (don't |
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>forget the -p!!)? |
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It is not in that list. I'm pretty sure I had that though. I'm never |
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100% on anything. |
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>Apparently nothing, since you don't have any applications installed that |
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>depend on it to work. |
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It is about to get the boot then. |
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>First of all, a reinstall of Gentoo is very rarely necessary, and |
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>certainly not for a minor text application being uninstalled, no matter |
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>what depends on it. Even in a dire emergency, when almost eveyrthing |
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>seems to be broken, it's rarely *necessary* to reinstall, but it's a |
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>*choice* one might make to save work or time. But Gentoo can almost |
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>always be fixed /in situ/, without a full reinstall being needed. |
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Problem is, if it don't boot into a GUI, I can't get to the net and get |
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help. Keep in mind that I don't dual boot windoze or anything. I |
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usually start over if I can't get it to work by myself. It has been a |
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while since I had serious trouble though. I did have a blank inittab |
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file once, that was . . . . interesting. I back-up my /etc on occasion |
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and just sort of copied one over after booting the CD. ;) Worked a lot |
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better then. :) |
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>Second of all, you have checked everything you can check; apparently you |
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>don't need this application (nothing you do need depends on it), and |
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>it's causing you problems with its irrelevant self. |
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Humor I like. LOL |
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>Uninstall it and see what happens. It *should* be all right, but |
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>sometimes being a Gentoo user requires a leap of faith. |
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Here goes the leap. If I disappear for a day or so, it wasn't good. |
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:( I have portage and distfiles on a seperate partition though. o_O |
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Just in case. |
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>This further suggests thaxt nothing depends on the application, so |
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>you're likely safe to just emerge -C it. |
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>HTH, |
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>Holly |
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Well, I hope this works. What is HTH? |
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Dale |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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