Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 04/12/08 Dale said:
>
>   
>> Yep, I had to add that option to mine a while back for --depclean to
>> work. Add that and it should run cleanly afterwards. You could also
>> --oneshot those in the list and it should work. I haven't tried that yet
>> but read it works.
>>     
>
> The docs on this seem wrong. 
>
>        --with-bdeps < y | n >
>               In dependency calculations, pull in build time dependencies that
>               are  not strictly required.   This defaults to 'n' for installa-
>               tion actions and 'y' for the --depclean  action.   This  setting
>               can be added to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS (see make.conf(5)) and later
>               overridden via the command line.
>
> But it doesn't seem to default to y for --depclean. I get completely different
> results when I set --with-bdeps=y on --depclean. 
>
> Mike
>   

Try this command:

emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps y world

When that is done, then try the --depclean, with a -p first.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)