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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.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 13:22:38
Message-Id: 200909261522.30726.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Samstag 26 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:36:45 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 > > Furthermore, *after* "emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded", do:
4 > >
5 > > grep oldPackageNoLongerNeeded /var/lib/portage/world
6 > >
7 > > to see if it's still listed in the world file. If yes, remove all
8 > > traces of it (you can simply edit this world file with a text editor,
9 > > it's safe, but of course you might still want to make a backup of it.)
10 >
11 > emerge -C should remove it from the world file. If it does not, something
12 > is broken that requires more than editing world.
13 >
14 > You can also check this with emaint -c world.
15 >
16
17 well sometimes an app appears more than once in world and after an removal
18 instances remain - yes, it should not happen.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>