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Thomas Kirchner wrote:
| * On Feb 25 17:37, David Harel ([email protected]) wrote:
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|>What is the right way to remove duplicated packages then?
|
|
| I guess I'm not sure what you mean.  Duplicated, as in multiple versions
| of a package installed?  If so, you can use emerge --prune (-P) PACKAGE
| which will keep only the newest version.  If that's not what you want, you
| can always uninstall specific copies of a package with emerge -C
| =category-name/PACKAGE-x.y which will leave all other versions intact.
| Tom

Be carful with emerge -P though. Don't just clean up everything that has
multiple versions installed, since this might break stuff that depends
on the pruned version (e.g. gtk+-1.x and gtk+-2.x ).

Regards,
Karsten
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