how to unmerge?

tscolari · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: how to unmerge?

Ive rencently merged kde here
I've just typed emerge kde

but it emerge a lot of kde stuff that now I see I will never use...
So, how could I unemerge this stuff? like the kde-games and education, hiw do I remove them from my hd?

yngwin · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

emerge unmerge packagename
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HydroSan · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

I suggest using:

tscolari · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject:

package in this case for example would be kde-games?
or is kde/kde-games?

emerge unmerge kde-games

--- Couldn't find kde-games to unmerge.

>>> unmerge: No packages selected for removal.

MacMasta · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:

...emerge -s <packagename> will look it up for you, so you know what it's called...

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Goalie31() · n00b Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Canada

Or, a bit more work is that you could look for it in the online package database http://packages.gentoo.org/ and find out its name that way

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daveb · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 12:38 am Post subject:

Or if your have gentoolkit installed you could do