On Saturday, August 08, 2015 2:26:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 08/08/2015 14:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 05:13:06 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > >> To remove safely now you should run: > >> emerge --deselect dev-haskell/hostname > >> followed by: > >> emerge --depclean > >> > >> That will remove it only if it's not needed by some other package. > > > > Or emerge --depclean --ask --verbose dev-haskell/hostname > > > > easier to type version > > > > emerge -cav dev-haskell/hostname > > > > > > > Then install eix to hugely simplify the search process that should have > been done as step 1. > > eix hostname > > would have immediately shown that it is a Haskell package and unsuitable. > >
And don't forget gentoolkit, so next time you screw up a config file instead of guessing it, you can easily find out which package provides it with: equery belongs <file> -- Fernando Rodriguez
