From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OmxYZ-0006RC-VM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:33:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 518BCE0941; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4778CE0941 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:31:56 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag4FAFb+b0xMCoTr/2dsb2JhbACTH40UcrobhTcEjGeEFA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,248,1280721600"; d="scan'208";a="73137020" Received: from 76-10-132-235.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.132.235]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 21 Aug 2010 19:31:54 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:32:05 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:32:05 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: autodepclean script (was "how to remove HAL") Message-ID: <20100821233205.GA7609@waltdnes.org> References: <20100817194922.GB6494@nibiru.local> <20100819030541.GA7423@waltdnes.org> <201008211207.40833.francesco.talamona@know.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201008211207.40833.francesco.talamona@know.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: df796196-2a6a-4a23-bce4-1c2e040673ff X-Archives-Hash: 30dd6b8b65d99faf7f1012f4e5826e6d On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote > I'm unclear about the aim of your script, what does different from > "emerge -a --depclean" followed by "revdep-rebuild -- -a"? The autodepclean script automatically generates a list of of target ebuuilds to clean out (i.e. "cleanscript"). This gives you the opportunity to review it and delete items from the list before going ahead. Does "emerge -a --depclean" allow you to skip individual items? -- Walter Dnes