[gentoo-dev] emerge --depclean broken?

[gentoo-dev] emerge --depclean broken?

[William Hubbs]

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Hi all,

I saw a comment a couple of days ago on the list about emerge --depclean being broken.

What should I specifically watch for if I use this function?

Thanks,

William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge --depclean broken?

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 17:39 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> I saw a comment a couple of days ago on the list about emerge --depclean being broken.
> 
> What should I specifically watch for if I use this function?

That is doesn't unmerge something that shouldn't be unmerged?

I've never had a problem with it, but I always -p before running a
--depclean.

There is also the problem where a USE flag change causes breakage if the
applications that use that flag are not rebuilt before doing the
--depclean.

Perfect example:

USE=acl emerge coreutils
emerge --depclean
ls

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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