Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I'm new to gentoo, and I recently changed my USE flags, so I ran
>
> emerge -p --depclean
>
> to see what it suggests removing. 
>
> Along with many others, I see
>
>  dev-lang/python
>     selected: 2.4.4-r13 
>    protected: none 
>      omitted: 2.5.2-r7 
>
> msoulier@anton:~$ equery list | grep dev-lang/python
> dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13
> dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7
>
> So it's going to remove the redundant python version, is that right? Any
> chance of shared files being removed?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>   

Run this, emerge -uvDNp world and see if it wants to emerge anything. 
man emerge will tell you what the options are for but the -N is the
important part.  Also, you may want to run python-updater as well just
to see if it picks up anything.  Basically, you want to make sure
everything is using the new version of python before removing the old. 
--depclean has no clue on that one.

Also, anytime you run --depclean, run revdep-rebuild -i afterwards just
in case something did get messed up.  Always do that before you log out
or reboot.  I have been known to switch to another console and login
before logging out of the other one.  Just to be sure.

Be very careful with --depclean.  It can really mess up something if you
are not watching close.  Ask first if you're not sure.

Dale

:-)  :-)