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From: "Ric de France" <rdefrance@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:43:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <982e82bf0610242043i41012555i76ce4e27ed13adc4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610250425.52243.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>

Thanks for that.... but one query...

On 25/10/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> yes it does. When you emerge something, a copy of the ebuild is stored
> in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<nameofapp>/
>
> (if you want to 'rescue ebuilds of removed but installed packages, just copy
> them).
>
> a safe way:
> emerge --unmerge xmms (and xmms-plugins and accesoires)

Can I slide in a "emerge --depclean" in here?

> emerge --newuse --deep world
>
> emerge playerofchoice

...Ric
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-24  7:08 [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly? local account for liebichw
2006-10-24  7:57 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-25  0:48   ` Ric de France
2006-10-25  2:25     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-25  3:43       ` Ric de France [this message]
2006-10-25  8:28         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-24  8:00 ` Dale
2006-10-24 13:06   ` Bira
2006-10-24 15:14     ` Mark Shields

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