[gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace atom. I forgot -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do? kh

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB KH wrote: Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB I have done this a few times as well and it

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: AllenJB wrote: From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB I have done this a few times

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 05 May 2009 10:00:40 +0200, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Dale schrieb: AllenJB wrote: From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 09:44:58 KH wrote: Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace atom. I forgot -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do?

[solved][gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: vi /var/lib/portage/world followed by intelligent use of the / and dd functions in vi :-) rofl