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Present USE flags upon emerging a package in gentoo
I was wondering if there are any tools to present the compile time options/ flags of a package in Gentoo when emerging. I am referring to something like this
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Safely uninstall a package in Gentoo
I wanted to uninstall a specific package in Gentoo and browsed through the emerge man page. I found the --unmerge option:
WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all
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On Gentoo, how do I rebuild all packages depended on some other package?
I made mistake and changed perl non-threaded version to threaded by unmerge first, change USE flags to include ithreads and emerge perl again. Now most packages depending on perl are broken. How do I ...
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On Gentoo is there a way to find a list of installed packages which doesn't have other packages depended on them?
On Gentoo, is there a way to find a list of installed packages which doesn't have other packages depended on them (so called leaf packages)? Or, is there analog of pkg-orphan FreeBSD utility?
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On Gentoo how do I find list of packages installed after some specific date?
I have Gentoo VM that I use to test different puppet recipes and I frequently need to remove packages to bring it to clean initial state. While I could do this by hand when there are only few packages ...
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How to install multiple versions of the same package in Gentoo?
I would like to install two (or more) versions of the same packages on my Gentoo system. I know for sure there won't be any file clash, since there very few files installed and each of them is named ...
