Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Undo feature in portage-ng ?

["Joseph Booker" <joe@neoturbine.net>]

Nicolás Echániz said:
> # emerge unmerge thissocoolapplication
> does not unmerge the dependencies that were installed along with the
> application, does it?
>
> What I usually do is look into /var/log/emerge.log to see what
> dependencies were installed when I installed thissocoolapplication and
> unmerge them all. This could be done automatically, but would only be
> approppriate if you were unmerging something you just emerged.
> Otherwise, you could unmerge a library that is a dependency to some
> other package that was installed later.

emerge -v thissocoolapplication

<brings in plenty of deps not used by another package, and adds
thiscoolapplication to the world file>

emerge -v --unmerge thiscoolapplicaton

<removes thiscoolapplication from the comp and the world file>

emerge -v depclean

<lists things broughtin but no longer found to be needed>

genlop -lunr|tail

<lists recently installed stuff>

emerge -v --unmerge <apps emerged before thiscoolapplication and not
needed according to depclean>

-- 
 Joe Booker

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