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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:09:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310210938.1f026a0c@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B97FE0E.2000307@libertytrek.org>

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:16:14 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

> Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above will 'ask'
> me if I want to continue and remove the packages it finds, correct?
> Meaning, it won't just blindly go ahead and start ripping stuff out...

Yes.
 
> How does that differ from 'emerge -p --depclean'?

With -p you have to run the command again, and let is scan all installed
packages and their deps again, when you want it to actually remove them.
It's just a more efficient way of doing it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"I am Homer of the Borg. You will be assim.... Hmm... Donuts..."

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 13:50 [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake? Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 14:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-10 16:17 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-03-10 18:45   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-10 20:04     ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:42     ` walt
2010-03-10 17:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2010-03-10 20:16   ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:03     ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-10 21:05     ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-03-11 15:46       ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:09     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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