On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> emerge -C kde-meta && emerge depclean
>
> Works fine, so long as you haven't ever done emerge /path/to/ebuild or
> installed packages which have conditional code based upon what the user
> has installed on their system (generally indicated by the has_version
> in global scope QA notice).

Thanks for that.  It's a shame that Portage doesn't know (and therefore can't 
display) why the package was installed in the first place, but that's a minor 
thing.

What effect does this have on packages installed with the --oneshot option 
(like, for example, everything mentioned in the GLSAs)?

Best regards,
Stu
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