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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4
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Maxim Wexler writes:

> When I ran #emerge -C xfce4-meta, portage went through the motions of
> removing the pkg but when I ran startx to see what happened xfce4
> appeared as usual.
> 
> Same as after a boot.
> 
> When I run the above command again, portage reports "Couldn't find
> 'null/xfce4' to unmerge...No packages selected for removal by unmerge.
> 
> xfce4-meta has been removed from the world file but no where else I
> can see. How do I get rid of it?

emerge -a --depclean perhaps?

	Wonko