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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 21:01:40
Message-Id: 200909262301.32047.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 15:22:30 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > > emerge -C should remove it from the world file. If it does not,
4 > > > something is broken that requires more than editing world.
5 > > >
6 > > > You can also check this with emaint -c world.
7 > >
8 > > well sometimes an app appears more than once in world and after an
9 > > removal instances remain - yes, it should not happen.
10 >
11 > If that because the world file was hand edited, or you you mean one entry
12 > for cat/pkg and one for cat/pkg-ver?
13 >
14 > emaint should still find and fix it.
15 >
16
17 the second. And then cat/pkg-ver (cat/pkg:slot) stayed around after an unmerge
18 and forced stuff back in.
19
20 emaint should find it, but in my experience it failes once in a while.

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