Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen(bo.andresen@zlin.dk) wrote
 > On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote:
 > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote:
 > > > Hi.  I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I
 > > > deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there.  I
 > > > did emerge --regen but still no luck.  The make.conf within layman no
 > > > longer has them, but where is the information still retained?
 > 
 > Would be much easier to answer if you told us why you think it's still there. 
 > And `emerge --regen` really wasn't needed (not that it did any damage 
 > either).
 > 
 > > If you mean by "portage still thinks" stuff from gentoolkit like equery
 > > then you should do eupdatedb I believe.
 > 
 > No, that's for esearch not equery. And update-eix for eix..

Well, what I mean by "portage thinks" is that its still looking for
updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I
do emerge --update --deep world  I get ebuilds from the overlays and
at the end it has the [1] indicating the overlay directory.

Very strange.

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