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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:37:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8F6303.2060801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j6nmra$81f$1@dough.gmane.org>

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-10-07, Michael Mol<mikemol@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Remove the -p to have portage go ahead and try to remove them. (But
>> you might see something you want to have remain, which is why you
>> should use -p first)
> If you do see packages that you want to keep, but aren't required by
> anything else, you can manually add them to your "world" file (usually
> /var/lib/portage/world) to protect them from removal by "emerge
> --depclean" in the future. IIRC, I had to do that to keep portage from
> removing Python 2 a while back.
>

or just use emerge -n <package name>.  Same thing plus portage puts it 
in alphabetical order too.  ;-)

Dale

:-) :-)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07 19:32 [gentoo-user] inkscape emerge James
2011-10-07 19:38 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-07 19:50   ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-07 20:18   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-07 20:23     ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-07 20:37     ` Dale [this message]
2011-10-10 16:21       ` James

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