[gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[James]

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?


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?


curiously,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[Michael Mol]

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.

So, say you install package A, and it depends on new packages B and C.
When you uninstall package A, packages B and C remain. When you use
--depclean, portage will see that B and C are installed, but aren't
required by anything.

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)

-- 
:wq

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
 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)

Or use -a instead of -p. That way it asks you if you want to proceed
after showing what it would do, and if you say yes you don't have to
wait for it to recalculate everything again. :)