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roytheman
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 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject: Unmerge package - Portage installs it again on World upgrade |
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Hello forum,
I unmerged networkmanager using the command "emerge --unmerge networkmanager" so I could use wpa_supplicant for getting online instead, and everything went well until my next world update. When I performed a world update using "emerge -vpuD world", portage wanted to re-install networkmanager all over again. But I do not want networkmanager installed at this time since I am using wpa_supplicant.
Did I do something wrong when I unmerged networkmanager? How can I stop portage from trying to re-install networkmanager on a world update?
Thanks for your time,
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Aquous
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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what does
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roytheman
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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No packaged selected for removal by depclean
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roytheman
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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I think I found my problem. I did not unmerge nm-applet. Once I unmerged that, a world update did not pull in networkmanager.
Thanks anyway,
Roy |
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dol-sen
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too late, but:
For those kinds of problems you have easy ways to find out why
1) use the -t, --tree emerge option so you can see what is pulling it in
2) app-portage/gentoolkit | Code: | | equery depends networkmanager |
3) app-portage/portage-utils qdepends which is similar to equery
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Aquous
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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No packaged selected for removal by depclean
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that's not the full output - in future, post the full output
As you found out yourself, the reason your world update wanted to reinstall it is the same as the reason depclean didn't want to remove it: a package on your system still depended on it.
It's a good idea to always uninstall packages using emerge -c (depclean) instead of emerge -C (unmerge) - depclean will show you the reverse dependencies (if you run it with the -v (verbose) option, that is) |
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