Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

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)

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