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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:40:00
Message-Id: 20100227113945.1be1c09d@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:53:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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3 > emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the
4 > world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in
5 > there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete
6 > something from world by hand, simply copy&pasting the line you want
7 > removed to "emerge -C <pasted line>" will have the same result.
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9 That's true if you know you want to remove the package, but if you are
10 cleaning the world file of dependencies that are in there, just edit the
11 file and let portage decide whether the package should be unmerged.
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 Indecision is the key to flexibility.

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