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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:08:07
Message-Id: 7573e9640512231000q2883223u9b6b7f2893cfc36b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages? by Roy Wright
1 On 12/22/05, Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > 'dev-db/mysqltool' has no ebuilds available
3 > 'dev-java/htmlparser' has no ebuilds available
4 > 'media-libs/divx4linux' has no ebuilds available
5
6 <snip>
7
8 > What I'm not sure about is how to check dependents and unmerge
9 > the two orphans. Any ideas before I try some deep cleaning?
10
11 They should still be in the package database, so just unmerge them as normal:
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13 unmerge dev-java/htmlparser
14 unmerge media-libs/divx4linux
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16 Then rebuild any packages where the dependancies got broken:
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18 revdep-rebuild
19
20 -Richard
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