On 09/20/2015 11:07 AM, James wrote: > Daniel Frey <djqfrey <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >> For boost and ffmpeg, try running `equery depends <package>` and if no >> result comes back it wasn't installed from a dependency. If it does say >> another package is pulling it in, remove it from the world file by >> using: `emerge --deselect <package>` - in the case of boost it would be >> `emerge --deselect dev-libs/boost`. > > Yea, many of us forget the --oneshot option whilst admining about..... >
Yep, in my case I did it about 25 times over many years. Eventually you'll get enough crap in the world file that portage has a hard time updating. I usually remember --oneshot but if I'm tired or distracted I forget it. :-) Dan
