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Wuodan
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krinn
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yep you've done it all wrong, glad it was ok this time.
| Quote: | But since none of them were packages I directly installed, I just hard-deleted them with:
emerge --unmerge -av package |
Never remove a dependency like you've done with emerge --unmerge package because it's not a package you have ask to install. If you didn't ask to install it and it was install it's because it's a dependency of someone.
And removing a dependency of a package doesn't appears a problem, well, it's not, until you fall on a dependency of a critical package.
revdep-rebuild is an helper, not a saver : it is there to ease the things and help you, it's not the doctor that will cure your gentoo. YOU are the doctor, revdep-rebuild is the helping nurse 
| Code: | equery d mpfr
* These packages depend on mpfr:
sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r3 (>=dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.2) |
Now what you think would happen if you remove mpfr because it's a package you didn't ask to be install ?
A: You'll endup there http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-27486-highlight-remove+mpfr.html |
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Wuodan
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Hm, ok I did it all wrong, lol.
I admit that everything was backuped and I had a copy of kernel config ready plus installation media to reinstall from scratch.
Plus I checked what was uninstalled, it was mostly gnome related and I can reinstall that through ssh.
But for next time, when for ex. gnome-menu version xz cannot be installed because gnome menu version ab is already installed.
Both versions explicitly required by gnome, which should be updated.
What do you do then?
Uninstall gnome to reinstall? |
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cach0rr0
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 6:28 am Post subject: |
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But for next time, when for ex. gnome-menu version xz cannot be installed because gnome menu version ab is already installed.
Both versions explicitly required by gnome, which should be updated.
What do you do then?
Uninstall gnome to reinstall? |
would have to see the output to say for sure
basically, the way it usually goes: you hit a blocker like that, the first few times you post a thread in Portage & Programming
the folks shrewd enough to teach how to fish, instead of give fish, will help you translate portage output, and interpret exactly what it's asking
after a few of those it will become more apparent that "when portage says X, it means I need to do A, then do B", you will become proficient in La Lengua de Portage, and learn how to interpret some of the screwy things it spits out.
...that's not to say blockers cant be the result of screwed up ebuilds, because that happens too sometimes 
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