It's quite difficult for a beginner to figure out how to uninstall package from gentoo. The emerge manpage show refer in more places to ebuild manpage. Second, the emerge manpage should mention at relevant places where user that there is "ebuid unmerge" command and if I got it right, that's the proper way how to uninstall. Manpage for emerge mentions that user can just download a package source using "-f" option. It should say what the user is expected to do then with that file, where to find the file(yes, see /etc/make.conf to get an idea that /usr/portage/distfiles might exist) and that simple "emerge pkg" next time will figure out that the file lies on the disk and so it will unpack/compile/install/postinstall ... From the whole ebuild manpage it is not clear what is the syntax. Ebuild always complains I have to specify two commands ... :( like "ebuild unpack compile xfree" or what? Add examples section to ebuild.1 and emerge.1. Explain better what "emerge unmerge" and "emerge clean" does and suggest user to user the "normal" way to uninstall packages - with pointer what command is that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
It's clear if you read the man pages. From 'man emerge': SYNOPSIS emerge [options] [action] [ebuild | tbz2file | class | dependency] ... ACTIONS unmerge (-C) WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes From 'man ebuild': SYNOPSIS ebuild file command [command]...
