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 1L0JHC-0002NR-OJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:13:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2A90E0401; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A4BE0401 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so541667qwc.10 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:13:05 -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=I9Y+8aZxAQLhd6O45457im+babKtK9fTKnhbAtdJ7LA=; b=qiA1HP2J0QF6Hb/Sx1QFSpeg5ev2IpkxDePuWSpAxKRZvqIIbBkmia9dRoY2Hyq2Go Urjo99ou7P818O05KhYWZFZ/RjzavTC8N8zKw+FU2TmAqcAlPr38OGAkpCNno3brjbAO NYvoxXxhPGZAPtD9pgZYR+YsphmyWdFSjnfUM= 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=KgV1VYoxfmfrDVQExucKgDAPbFh14JvSAXT2697YjbXd3t4RUWMjxL3WgGZcztUZwG KNBaiigRTZEuAeZeD6e1ewXFkPLu+RTHadENQbs/9WQtfWLLuX7KfsZbYBMRd40svFdJ El7E/26mqUn+WCvlr/sZHohkS9yPfEacM0aRk= Received: by 10.214.150.15 with SMTP id x15mr9892938qad.114.1226509985667; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.90.179? (dialup-4.231.90.179.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.90.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm3954754qwk.1.2008.11.12.09.13.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:13:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491B0E9C.5050809@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:13:00 -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> <491A62D8.4030300@gmail.com> <20081112090853.714c7933@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081112090853.714c7933@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 581b81e0-0ddb-439b-b873-7ce8319d2a76 X-Archives-Hash: cb52de4728ad245af9bde506ae1258c8 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:08 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >> Be very careful with --depclean. It can really mess up something if you >> are not watching close. >> > > That may have been the case some time ago, but depclean is much safer > now. Notice that the warning at the start of its output has disappeared > now? > > > That is true but let's say a person updates python but forgets or doesn't know, to run python-updater, will --depclean know that? What if emerge doesn't work and they don't have buildpkg of some sort in make.conf? I agree that --depclean is a LOT better but there are still situations where it can mess up a system. It is best to be careful and really look at that list before letting it remove a package. Basically, don't type it in and walk off to let it do whatever it wants. I also seem to remember that big warning when --depclean runs. I think that may still be there for a reason. ;-) Dale :-) :-)