On Saturday 24 May 2008, dhk wrote:
> Two problems along the same line.
>
> After doing an "emerge -C cvs ssmtp" and "revdep-rebuild --ignore" it
> seems that there are still traces of the two programs around.
>
> 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do
> an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list.  The
> /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either.  This isn't a
> Blocking problem, but every update installs cvs again.
>
> 2) The ssmtp I removed because it was blocking sendmail.  When I try
> to emerge sendmail ssmtp is on top of the list and I stll have
> blocking. See the --pretend below.  The sendmail program doesn't show
> up in the /var/lib/portage/world either.

Some other package is probably pulling them in as a dependency.

emerge -avuNDt world will reveal why



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