On 2011-10-07, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I read somewhere that inkscape (in portage) >> can open and allow some manipulation of >> Visio files. Anyone got any experience >> with inkscape and visio files? > > Haven't messed with visio files in years, and then only with Visio. > > >> Emerging inkscape, it required 12 new packages >> to be install too. What must I do to ensure that >> when I unemerge ??inkscape, the other 12 packages >> are also removed? > > Roughly speaking, > > emerge -p --depclean > > will show you what packages are installed which you didn't explicitly > ask for, and which are no longer depended upon by any > explicitly-selected packages.
[...] > Remove the -p to have portage go ahead and try to remove them. (But > you might see something you want to have remain, which is why you > should use -p first) If you do see packages that you want to keep, but aren't required by anything else, you can manually add them to your "world" file (usually /var/lib/portage/world) to protect them from removal by "emerge --depclean" in the future. IIRC, I had to do that to keep portage from removing Python 2 a while back. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! PUNK ROCK!! DISCO at DUCK!! BIRTH CONTROL!! gmail.com