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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:34:10
Message-Id: 4ABE88CC.7080101@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Samstag 26 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:22:30 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>> emerge -C should remove it from the world file. If it does not,
7 >>>> something is broken that requires more than editing world.
8 >>>>
9 >>>> You can also check this with emaint -c world.
10 >>>>
11 >>> well sometimes an app appears more than once in world and after an
12 >>> removal instances remain - yes, it should not happen.
13 >>>
14 >> If that because the world file was hand edited, or you you mean one entry
15 >> for cat/pkg and one for cat/pkg-ver?
16 >>
17 >> emaint should still find and fix it.
18 >>
19 >>
20 >
21 > the second. And then cat/pkg-ver (cat/pkg:slot) stayed around after an unmerge
22 > and forced stuff back in.
23 >
24 > emaint should find it, but in my experience it failes once in a while.
25 >
26 >
27 >
28
29 Since the world file is in alphabetical order, it should be easy enough
30 to find tho. They should be right there together.
31
32 Would it be possible that emerge just removes the first match it sees in
33 the world file when it unmerges a package? Could this be a "minor" bug?
34
35 Dale
36
37 :-) :-)