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 1QznF5-00035z-V6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:14:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EE8F21C1C7; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 10:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F5121C021 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 10:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EB0F9804DB for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 11:13:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 11:13:20 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 Message-ID: <20110903111320.2f2e7f75@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4E612942.7080305@darkmetatron.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs15 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/S+ZcmECC=70R2sgdGT/z_lS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0b367b850ba6a97d6516469350c2dda2 --Sig_/S+ZcmECC=70R2sgdGT/z_lS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just > >> -C? =20 > > > > If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a > > dependency. Using --depclean helps because it checks that and only > > unmerges if nothing needs it as a dependency anymore. > > > > Greetings > > > > Sebastian =20 >=20 > Fair enough. Thanks. Presumably the use of --depclean doesn't work > until you're clear with emerge -DuN @world? >=20 > I've used this stuff so long I've not learned many of the newer tricks > I think. Good stuff. I believe the -C output recommends using --depclean instead now. --=20 Neil Bothwick This chicken has no beak, said Tom impeccably. --Sig_/S+ZcmECC=70R2sgdGT/z_lS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5h/cAACgkQum4al0N1GQMlFACgr2zpMQIZX2eJ95OSx27lzOm9 Y2EAn12HYbWPevnF0Cfw1X1KJlZbLlWu =8Xf0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/S+ZcmECC=70R2sgdGT/z_lS--