Hi,
I have some trouble is safely removing a package.
I remember doing a "qpkg -q -I <package>" to find out whether the
package is still used, and the remove it.
But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by
equery.
However, there are two problems with equery:
1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends <package> displays all
packages that may depend on a package, not the ones that really do on my
system.
I remember seeing something in bugzilla about this issue, but is was
marked as fixed, but I could not figure out in which version (I have the
latest gentoolkit).
2. it disregards the virtual packages. According to equery, I cas safely
remove xorg-x11 (!), because no one depends on it! But if I do so, all
packages depending on the virtual x11 package would be broken.
So, considering this, can someone point out how can I safely remove a
package?
Thank you,
Catalin
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