[gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[James]

Hello,

I read somewhere that inkscape (in portage)
can open and allow some manipulation of
Visio files. Anyone got any experience
with inkscape and visio files?


Emerging inkscape, it required 12 new packages
to be install too. What must I do to ensure that
when I unemerge  inkscape, the other 12 packages
are also removed?


curiously,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I read somewhere that inkscape (in portage)
> can open and allow some manipulation of
> Visio files. Anyone got any experience
> with inkscape and visio files?

Haven't messed with visio files in years, and then only with Visio.


> Emerging inkscape, it required 12 new packages
> to be install too. What must I do to ensure that
> when I unemerge  inkscape, the other 12 packages
> are also removed?

Roughly speaking,

emerge -p --depclean

will show you what packages are installed which you didn't explicitly
ask for, and which are no longer depended upon by any
explicitly-selected packages.

So, say you install package A, and it depends on new packages B and C.
When you uninstall package A, packages B and C remain. When you use
--depclean, portage will see that B and C are installed, but aren't
required by anything.

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)

-- 
:wq

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:38 PM, 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)

Or use -a instead of -p. That way it asks you if you want to proceed
after showing what it would do, and if you say yes you don't have to
wait for it to recalculate everything again. :)

[gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-10-07, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I read somewhere that inkscape (in portage)
>> can open and allow some manipulation of
>> Visio files. Anyone got any experience
>> with inkscape and visio files?
>
> Haven't messed with visio files in years, and then only with Visio.
>
>
>> Emerging inkscape, it required 12 new packages
>> to be install too. What must I do to ensure that
>> when I unemerge ??inkscape, the other 12 packages
>> are also removed?
>
> Roughly speaking,
>
> emerge -p --depclean
>
> will show you what packages are installed which you didn't explicitly
> ask for, and which are no longer depended upon by any
> explicitly-selected packages.

[...]

> 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.

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[gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-10-07, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-10-07, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

>> emerge -p --depclean
>>
>> will show you what packages are installed which you didn't explicitly
>> ask for, and which are no longer depended upon by any
>> explicitly-selected packages.
>
> [...]
>
>> 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.

I forgot to include this link:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage#Maintaining_the_World_File

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge

[Dale]

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

:-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge

[James]

Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 

Well, first of all I can report that no version of inkscape
in portage works with visio (6.2) files. I've read several
places that it should work, but it croaks upon loading the
visio (version 6.2) file....


> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2011-10-07, Michael Mol<mikemol <at> 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)

Yes, I got this but in the past depclean has failed or come up
miserably short. BUT now, it works very well, not only removing
the 12 packages that where in stalled with the stabler version
of inkscape but the latest (`) version, I had to install
with this syntax:

emerge -u inkscape --autounmask-write

I'm thinking that ZAK(a_roo_ski) deserves a 
bunch of BREW_skis ?


If the past depclean has disappointed me, particularly
when packages were installed with automask...
or other sorts of gymnastical syntax......


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

It's always good to hear from my favorite track_TOR driving
admin. I'm looking to get a small bucket/hoe combo (3-foot/6-inch) 
for under 10K. Got any suggestions? You mounted an embedded
gentoo system on that tractor yet? (for real, not just
pulling you leg) ????? We gotta get you linked in on that
tracter...... with some pics or a video feed....
;-) 

So, I was really trolling for expertise in manipulating visio
files via some native linux package. Inkscape was all
that google searches returned, and Inkscape could not
even load up the visio (.vsd) files... I guess I was
not too clear on that point. Oh well, I just
had the doz dude send me pdfs.


Thanks to all for the help!
James