[gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

[Catalin Grigoroscuta]

Hi,


I have some trouble is safely removing a package.
I remember doing a "qpkg -q -I <package>" to find out whether the 
package is still used,  and the remove it.

But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by 
equery.
However, there are two problems with equery:
1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends <package> displays all 
packages that may depend on a package, not the ones that really do on my 
system.
I remember seeing something in bugzilla about this issue, but is was 
marked as fixed, but I could not figure out in which version (I have the 
latest gentoolkit).
2. it disregards the virtual packages. According to equery, I cas safely 
remove xorg-x11 (!), because no one depends on it! But if I do so, all 
packages depending on the virtual x11 package would be broken.

So, considering this, can someone point out how can I safely remove a 
package?


Thank you,
Catalin
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