Bug 63 – add simple "unmerge" functionality to emerge

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-01-06 22:34:20 UTC]

[Comment 1 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) 2002-01-07 12:08:30 UTC]

More complicated version: option to remove packages that depend on the named 
package.

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-01-18 23:14:24 UTC]

emerge --zap? "depstring"
emerge --unmerge? "depstring"

Geert -- wanna give this one a shot?
If not, I can do it.  But I thought I'd offer :)

[Comment 3 Geert Bevin 2002-01-19 03:05:55 UTC]

Ok, I'm in for it. :-)

[Comment 4 Geert Bevin 2002-01-30 05:55:26 UTC]

Just to not forget : the initial version should either be like this :

emerge --unmerge <=cat/pkg-1.0

this uses the dep mechanism to determine which packages should be removed, or
similar to the ebuild version :

emerge --unmerge /var/db/pkg/cat/pkg-1.1-r2

which does the same as 

ebuild /var/db/pkg/cat/pkg-1.1-r2pkg-1.1-r2/.ebuild unmerge

[Comment 5 Geert Bevin 2002-01-31 18:50:08 UTC]

This has been implemented, would be nice if drobbins could check the changes
since I'm still a bit unsure about the whole portage architecture and structure.