[gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

[gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

[Allan Gottlieb]

(I confess to being a little over cautious after xcb.)

After today's update word (just a few updates were specified/done).
--depclean recommended

>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:

 x11-libs/gtk+
    selected: 3.0.9 
   protected: none 
     omitted: 2.24.3 

All selected packages: x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9

I am a gnome user so gtk is important and I notice that it is suggesting
I remove the highest version.  I decided not to remove it until I
checked here.  My system is ~amd64

Advice appreciated.
allan

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

[Norman Rieß]

Am 04/28/11 14:28, schrieb Allan Gottlieb:
> (I confess to being a little over cautious after xcb.)
> 
> After today's update word (just a few updates were specified/done).
> --depclean recommended
> 
>>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
> 
>  x11-libs/gtk+
>     selected: 3.0.9 
>    protected: none 
>      omitted: 2.24.3 
> 
> All selected packages: x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9
> 
> I am a gnome user so gtk is important and I notice that it is suggesting
> I remove the highest version.  I decided not to remove it until I
> checked here.  My system is ~amd64
> 
> Advice appreciated.
> allan
> 

Hi,

you can check with "equery d x11-libs/gtk+" if there is a package which
depends on this version. I expect there will be none, otherwise depclean
would not want to remove it.
If you remove it, you can run "revdep-rebuild" to see if any programs
have broken libs und rebuild them.

Regards
Norman

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

[Jesús J. Guerrero Botella]

gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't
know if you need it, then you don't need it. You will be happy as long
as portage doesn't want to remove gtk+ 2.x which is what most programs
use. I don't even know if there's anything in portage at all that will
require 3.x.


-- 
Jesús Guerrero Botella

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Thu, Apr 28 2011, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:

> gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't
> know if you need it, then you don't need it. You will be happy as long
> as portage doesn't want to remove gtk+ 2.x which is what most programs
> use. I don't even know if there's anything in portage at all that will
> require 3.x.

I see.  It is required only for gnome3, which I am not yet running.

thank you and norman as well,

allan

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:19 +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't
> know if you need it, then you don't need it.


Gnome3 is slowly making its way into portage, and so so is bringing with
it packages that depend either explicitly or optionally on gtk3, e.g.

libunique-3.0.0
clutter-gtk
libnotify-0.7.2
gtkmm-3.0.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

[Mick]

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On Thursday 28 April 2011 14:08:20 Norman Rieß wrote:
> Am 04/28/11 14:28, schrieb Allan Gottlieb:
> > (I confess to being a little over cautious after xcb.)
> > 
> > After today's update word (just a few updates were specified/done).
> > --depclean recommended
> > 
> >>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
> >  x11-libs/gtk+
> >  
> >     selected: 3.0.9
> >    
> >    protected: none
> >    
> >      omitted: 2.24.3
> > 
> > All selected packages: x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9
> > 
> > I am a gnome user so gtk is important and I notice that it is suggesting
> > I remove the highest version.  I decided not to remove it until I
> > checked here.  My system is ~amd64
> > 
> > Advice appreciated.
> > allan
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you can check with "equery d x11-libs/gtk+" if there is a package which
> depends on this version. I expect there will be none, otherwise depclean
> would not want to remove it.
> If you remove it, you can run "revdep-rebuild" to see if any programs
> have broken libs und rebuild them.

equery is not the most reliable tool for this purpose.  It is better to run:

emerge --depclean -v -p '=x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9'

This will show all packages that depend on the above version.  If none comes 
up you can allow depclean to do its thing.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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