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Bug 1821 - portage 1.8.19 - -u switch doesn't work but unmerge does
Summary: portage 1.8.19 - -u switch doesn't work but unmerge does
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-04-15 22:04 UTC by Bob Waskosky
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:20 UTC (History)
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Description Bob Waskosky 2002-04-15 22:04:08 UTC 
bug in portage 1.8.19 - -u switch only...using unmerge works

emerge unmerge <program> works fine but emerge -u <program> doesn't remove anything.

root@dellbox conf.d # emerge -u fakeidentd
Calculating dependencies ...done!

 * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
 * Processed 55 info files.
 * IMPORTANT: 17 config files in /etc need updating.
 * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.

root@dellbox conf.d # emerge unmerge fakeidentd

The following packages are going to be unmerged :

net-misc/fakeidentd
    Selected : 1.4-r7
    Protected: none
    Omitted  : none

Waiting 5 seconds to make sure that you want these
packages to be removed ...
5 4 3 2 1 0
Unmerging fakeidentd-1.4-r7.ebuild ...
Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-04-16 01:32:13 UTC 
use "emerge -C"; see "emerge --help"