how to remove a package that's no longer in portage ?

[natanver]

I want to remove a package (media-libs/pdflib)

perl-cleaner is complaining about not finding the ebuild (media-libs/pdflib was removed from portage)

How to proceed ?

Regards,
Natan

[John R. Graham]

Just unmerge it.

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[natanver]

[Roman_Gruber]

[krinn]

emerge isn't telling you that package is still there.
emerge is telling you media-libs/pdflib has no more ebuild in your tree.

so if you don't have a package and emerge wants it even you didn't ask it, someone asked to get that package.
if it's not you, it's then a dependency of someone but emerge should had tell you who is that someone in the form "require by package/xxx".

ask emerge to upgrade it so it loose its dependency over the "not in the tree" package or remove it as it should probably be out of the tree too.

[natanver]

the dependency is libperl

I need to run perl-cleaner.

[natanver]

[krinn]

[natanver]

I moved that file. (I renamed the folder)

But when I re-run perl-cleaner, it's again added to the list

[Ant P.]

Have you done an emerge world lately?

[Hu]

OP: several posters have told you to remove pdflib, but you have not said what goes wrong when you try to unmerge it. Please provide the full output of emerge --unmerge media-libs/pdflib www-apps/swish-e.

[natanver]

I managed to solve the problem.

what I did:

placed 2 old packages (swish-e and pdflib) in /usr/local/portage/ (ebuild found in the 'attic')

emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*')
emerge -1a $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*')
perl-cleaner --all -- --ask


Thanks for the help.