From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-portage-dev+bounces-1948-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1JPbaM-0000RG-MT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:44:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92D26E0775; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F54FE0775 for <gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so204342nfh.26 for <gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:44:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.148.8 with SMTP id v8mr552293hud.28.1202985896254; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:44:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.46.19 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:44:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <b41005390802140244i32b31bd6p700694d5c5671a59@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:44:56 -0800 From: "Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org> Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall In-Reply-To: <8DE0084FFD169E4BBBC26963F0E02CA4018A5924@ms02insiel.insiel.it> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-portage-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8DE0084FFD169E4BBBC26963F0E02CA4018A5924@ms02insiel.insiel.it> X-Google-Sender-Auth: d0d147f9a1f069b9 X-Archives-Salt: f4d07541-bced-4522-8e30-83e287da57ed X-Archives-Hash: 295e23fe18220fa0ef2ea85d7e9a38f3 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. -- gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list