I wanted to uninstall a specific package in Gentoo and browsed through the emerge man page. I found the --unmerge
option:
WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all
matching packages. This does no checking of dependencies, so it may
remove packages necessary for the proper operation of your system.Its
arguments can be atoms or ebuilds. For a dependency aware version of
–unmerge, use –depclean or –prune.
However, I'd like emerge to check whether the package I want to uninstall is required by any other installed package in the system. --depclean
and --prune
don't provide that functionality:
--depclean
removes packages that were installed as dependencies, but are not needed anymore--prune
"removes all but the highest installed version of a package from your system"
Is there no dependency-checking version of --unmerge
?
Best Answer
I don't think
depclean
works the way you described. Without any arguments it does, but if you pass it a package name it works likeunmerge
with an additional dependency check. Fromemerge(1)
:I always use
--depclean
(-c
) to unmerge individual packages; it works fine