Holly Bostick wrote: >It is not *currently* installed, you mean. But xmlto remains installed >as a dependency of the uninstalled package. > >Does it (xmlto) appear in the output of an emerge deplclean -p (don't >forget the -p!!)? > >
It is not in that list. I'm pretty sure I had that though. I'm never 100% on anything. > >Apparently nothing, since you don't have any applications installed that >depend on it to work. > > It is about to get the boot then. >First of all, a reinstall of Gentoo is very rarely necessary, and >certainly not for a minor text application being uninstalled, no matter >what depends on it. Even in a dire emergency, when almost eveyrthing >seems to be broken, it's rarely *necessary* to reinstall, but it's a >*choice* one might make to save work or time. But Gentoo can almost >always be fixed /in situ/, without a full reinstall being needed. > > Problem is, if it don't boot into a GUI, I can't get to the net and get help. Keep in mind that I don't dual boot windoze or anything. I usually start over if I can't get it to work by myself. It has been a while since I had serious trouble though. I did have a blank inittab file once, that was . . . . interesting. I back-up my /etc on occasion and just sort of copied one over after booting the CD. ;) Worked a lot better then. :) >Second of all, you have checked everything you can check; apparently you >don't need this application (nothing you do need depends on it), and >it's causing you problems with its irrelevant self. > > Humor I like. LOL >Uninstall it and see what happens. It *should* be all right, but >sometimes being a Gentoo user requires a leap of faith. > > Here goes the leap. If I disappear for a day or so, it wasn't good. :( I have portage and distfiles on a seperate partition though. o_O Just in case. > >This further suggests thaxt nothing depends on the application, so >you're likely safe to just emerge -C it. > >HTH, >Holly > > Well, I hope this works. What is HTH? Dale -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- [email protected] mailing list
