On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:30:13 +0200 Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
| while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I
| stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed
| on my system.
| 
| How can I get rid of that stuff? I mean "emerge --unmerge
| dead-package" won't do it because the ebuild doesn't exist any more. 

It will unless you installed said package a very long time ago. Portage
keeps a copy of the ebuild in the vdb when you install something.

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