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From: forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing X
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:30:56
Message-Id: 20071226031437.GA13807@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: removing X by reader@newsguy.com
1 On 07:34 Tue 25 Dec , reader@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@××××××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 > > Something to remember for the future:
5 > >
6 > > You can delete entries in the world file
7 > >
8 > > Personally, I find that faster than going through and finding what is
9 > > already installed, and doing the uninstall the long way. emerge --tree
10 > > should help some, as well, but for a basic install (<30 packages in
11 > > world), deleting the entries should be the fastest way, followed by an
12 > > emerge --depclean.
13 >
14 > Thanks for your input..
15 > Earlier in this thread ( Message-ID: <87odcgkmc6.fsf@×××××××.com> )
16 > it was explained why I couldn't use --depclean at that point.
17 >
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20 >
21 >
22
23 If you mean the error w/ needing to run emerge -u, that was because a
24 program was calling in a dep you had removed. I may have missed
25 something else, but thats the problem I have had, since I do system
26 cleans like I mentioned.
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