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From: Constantine Kardaris <ckardaris@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge meta packages problems
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:12:16
Message-Id: 442585B5.8000705@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge meta packages problems by Alexander Kirillov
1 Alexander Kirillov wrote:
2 >> i'd like to ask you if it's possible to unmerge the dependencies of a
3 >> meta package that installed automatic but have recorded in world file
4 >> after a while.
5 >> For example, i want to unmerge gnome-light but many dependencies have
6 >> already re-emerged without oneshot option and have recorded in world
7 >> file. So "emerge -C gnome-light || emerge --depclean" does not help
8 >> anymore.
9 >
10 > You have to edit world file manually
11 > and remove everything but the packages you really need
12 > and then run emerge --depclean again.
13 >
14 > HTH
15 >
16 yeah it seams there is no other way than manual edit world file...
17 Thanks even!
18
19 con
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