Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Sébastien MORAND wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm trying to clean my install (one year old, so it's time to do it). I run an
> update, and run :
> emerge --newuse -Dvu world
> 
> It installs a lot of update and so on and do everything ok.
> 
> Afterwards, I run :
> revdep-rebuild
> 
> It makes a lot of rebuild about some broken link, I also uninstall so useless
> software and/or lib.
> 
> Now, I'm quite sure everything is correctly linked, since runing emerge --newuse
> -Dvu world or revdep-rebuild answers : << nothing has to be done >>.
> 
> Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation :
> emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done)
> 
> And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a
> lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...)
> 
> Is this result normal ? What did I miss ?
> 

Hi Sébastien,

It's normal for some packages to become unecessary as you update packages, unmerge packages, and change use flags.  Generally, it's best to do a depclean *before* packages are built (via direct emerge or revdep-rebuild).  Also, do a revdep-rebuild after a depclean.

Zac
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