Re: [gentoo-user] How to comletely remove some package?

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> Ah, thanks. so the idea is:
> 
> 1) emerge -Cp package
> 1.5) emerge -av depclean
> 2) emerge -av --deep --update --newuse world
> 3) emerge -pv --depclean
> 4) revdep-rebuild -p
> 
> With step 1.5 to remove these old libraries? Seems to me that doing
> this sort of depends on having done the whole process sometime before
> cleanly through step 4. Fine with me though. Thanks for the
> explanation.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 

Well, after you do step 1) it's best to purge any unneeded dependancies before proceding any further.  Extra libraries pollute the build environment.

Zac
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