[gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

[gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

[Maxim Wexler]

Hi group,

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?

Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

[Alan McKinnon]

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You unmerged the meta package but not its DEPENDs

Emerge -av --depclean

On Nov 11, 2009 8:56 PM, "Maxim Wexler" <maxim.wexler@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi group,

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?

Maxim

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Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

[Alex Schuster]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

[Maxim Wexler]

On 11/11/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> You unmerged the meta package but not its DEPENDs
>
> Emerge -av --depclean

OK, I re-emerged xfce4-meta, and ran emerge -av --depclean
xfce4-meta(You *did* mean to add the pkg name, I presume).

The wheels churned:

Calculating dependencies ... done!...>>>Unmerging
xfce4-base/xfce3-meta-4.6.1...No package files given...Grabbing a
set...Packages installed: 436...Number removed: 1

xfce4 stil appears after running startx. revdep-rebuild -p finds
"linking...consistent"

mw

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You unmerged the meta package but not its DEPENDs
>>
>> Emerge -av --depclean
>
> OK, I re-emerged xfce4-meta, and ran emerge -av --depclean
> xfce4-meta(You *did* mean to add the pkg name, I presume).

If you run depclean without any package name, it will remove all
orphaned packages on your system, which I think is what you wanted to
do. (Since you removed the meta package, all packages that it pulled
in which is not needed by any other package is now an orphan)