[SOLVED] complete uninstall of packages

381208 · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 2

I know that portage removes a package and the appropriate dependencies (if not needed by other packages)
when using the

John R. Graham · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:57 pm Post subject:

Short answer: no. Or, only manually. Portage has no way of knowing about files a package creates after it's installed.

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khayyam · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 2:18 pm Post subject:

sigkill ...

you might try app-portage/gcruft or app-portage/find_cruft.

HTH & best ... khay

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Also app-portage/portage-utils:

381208 · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 2

Thanks for the very fast and helpful answers!
Didn't thought the gentoo community is that fast *thumbs up*

app-portage/portage-utils looks very powerful
I will try this