From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E15kA-0005PZ-D7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:12:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j75HAgsr011706; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:10:42 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j75H72eQ008256 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:07:02 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so415745nzc for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:07:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jjyomKFiA86PkS0adp0UgBtRxO8OHd8BpRlZ4l7Hq5ZdbrIMy64utXwgzsibV/0zRfDlgpZcgpzONIOOYU6luFi3K65i/8HpBdauPjhv6kCoRpoynZ/2e4ouw4YnhNrjwHR0dvRZD4iS2BBzbCxFaV61/sI1Y1nQ71UkToyj0FU= Received: by 10.37.15.47 with SMTP id s47mr1264901nzi; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.57.9 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0508051007576eea23@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:07:55 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to comletely remove some package? In-Reply-To: <200508051211.27128.cadaver@nerdshack.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200508051211.27128.cadaver@nerdshack.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j75H72eQ008256 X-Archives-Salt: de43e7f9-b9a0-4cd0-a97f-13401cc91847 X-Archives-Hash: 870b740a7d548c2ebed08d0e17a1f1d6 Generally speaking, something like: 1) emerge -Cp package 2) emerge -pv --deep --update --newuse world 3) emerge -pv --depclean 4) revdep-rebuild -p This should get rid of a package and any dependencies that are no longer needed. NOTE: There have been some discussions about needing to do one or more of these steps multiple times. Hopefully my answer will spur someone with knowledge of that to point out if and when that is required. Cheers, Mark On 8/5/05, cadaver@nerdshack.com wrote: > How to comletely remove some package(i.e. no cfgpro, no !mtime)? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list