On 13 February 2006 11:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:30:13 +0200 Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I > | stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed > | on my system. > | > | How can I get rid of that stuff? I mean "emerge --unmerge > | dead-package" won't do it because the ebuild doesn't exist any more. > > It will unless you installed said package a very long time ago. Portage > keeps a copy of the ebuild in the vdb when you install something.
Apparently, I did install it a very long time ago because emerge told me it didn't know it. :-( Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
