manual uninstall

On Thursday 14 February 2008, Lanza Fabrizio wrote:
> I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge
--unmerge).

not supported

> How 
> do I tell emerge that a package is not installed (even
if it is)? (I
> basically need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst
issue.)

you unmerge it ... if you insist on modifying the backend
information, then 
see:

>  Another good question is: how does portage know that a
package is
> actually installed?

portage maintains installed package information in
/var/db/pkg/
-mike

On 2/14/08, Lanza Fabrizio <Fabrizio.Lanzainsiel.it> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi,
> I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge
--unmerge).

Er, manually meaning 'I want to delete anything it installed
by hand'?
or 'I want to run the phases by hand'?

Why doesn't emerge -C work for this case?

> How do I
> tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it
is)? (I basically
> need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.)

emerge <package> will reinstall it...

>
>  Another good question is: how does portage know that a
package is actually
> installed?
>
>  Thank you.
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