From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L07px-0002xz-MQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 400ECE033A; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03462E033A for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so1220762rvb.1 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:00:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=y4XH8Gu784snFTmN+ZAKjFJsCQEJcN9KigGQNKddA5w=; b=O6SCPoHncUh6fdqrdXHhquo6ZPzGc4vaOnedocCKg2kG+cinao8z2og6Vzko/zZdnq H9LW86P3eRzgYlHWTJxwXRkn1qyI4Kjq0FlXXJazR4EVpuoJH4HiKUkpxqq4rNp7CFoq L+hnrfbwTht/Qpbzrip05nRDJTPt5mIbKtNrQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mVITNrUyjkXC41vg2/I69p3pGjwlZ7vroGuptJrLxp1uQnk9cchuByFr8XHn/6g8D1 m6Uiq6okvgOAcEU+IUgysrCBLFipU6j6oLrqps0VL445g95meahh0drg1Md0TZ7DUzBy 0kNk0+ysQsKXvMhaxYx4ltH5Y/HBRaFAdIN90= Received: by 10.141.35.21 with SMTP id n21mr4672638rvj.259.1226466014151; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:00:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.2.153? (dialup-4.231.2.153.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.2.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b8sm27659625rvf.3.2008.11.11.21.00.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:00:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491A62D8.4030300@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:08 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081110 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean References: <20081112044126.GA4995@anton.digitaltorque.ca> In-Reply-To: <20081112044126.GA4995@anton.digitaltorque.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b3b4e74f-f3ac-47d1-9201-71e10ff8a132 X-Archives-Hash: 3a482edeecb55704eae4d5b4060b9962 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 :-) :-)