* Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall
@ 2008-02-14 10:44 99% ` Alec Warner
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From: Alec Warner @ 2008-02-14 10:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-portage-dev
On 2/14/08, Lanza Fabrizio <Fabrizio.Lanza@insiel.it> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge).
Er, manually meaning 'I want to delete anything it installed by hand'?
or 'I want to run the phases by hand'?
Why doesn't emerge -C work for this case?
> How do I
> tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it is)? (I basically
> need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.)
emerge <package> will reinstall it...
>
> Another good question is: how does portage know that a package is actually
> installed?
>
> Thank you.
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