unmerging packages which are no longer referenced

#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

I emerged duke3d to check it out, and it pulled in 3 other packages
as dependencies. Then I unmerged duke3d but only duke3d was removed.
How do people handle this? If I'm using them correctly, the clean and
depclean options to emerge did not seem to get the other 3 packages.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

Am Fri, 05 Sep 2003 03:18:34 +0000 schrieb Wes Gray:

> I emerged duke3d to check it out, and it pulled in 3 other packages
> as dependencies. Then I unmerged duke3d but only duke3d was removed.
> How do people handle this? If I'm using them correctly, the clean and
> depclean options to emerge did not seem to get the other 3 packages.

Hi,

before i merge some packages i do this before :

emerge packagename > ~/package.emerge

So when i unmerge this package i see which dependacis should be
uninstalled too.

In your case try

emerge --depclean -p

Cheers,
Patrick

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

Wes Gray wrote:

> I emerged duke3d to check it out, and it pulled in 3 other packages
> as dependencies. Then I unmerged duke3d but only duke3d was removed.
> How do people handle this? If I'm using them correctly, the clean and
> depclean options to emerge did not seem to get the other 3 packages.
You could check the emerge log (/var/log/emerge.log) to see what the othrer
packages were, then unmerge them.
--
jim

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

jim wrote:
>> I emerged duke3d to check it out, and it pulled in 3 other packages
>> as dependencies. Then I unmerged duke3d but only duke3d was removed.
>> How do people handle this? If I'm using them correctly, the clean and
>> depclean options to emerge did not seem to get the other 3 packages.
>
> You could check the emerge log (/var/log/emerge.log) to see what the othrer
> packages were, then unmerge them.

Thanks, that works great.

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