From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QzZGh-0002KY-PN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:19:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B47F121C14A; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 19:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com (mail-qy0-f174.google.com [209.85.216.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A068F21C064 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 19:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk15 with SMTP id 15so890694qyk.19 for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5GU8jsjKCJwXoDVr66+ZKqz+77ANmpvfJ1zliGQWlPM=; b=DQYdVUmV9dYIG7hZC9ilvgFSgFWN0lVBd+yWn5jTkD1jIJ7S386oJwvbGE37MojMYq AtKQVnMw4uUfqpcLToppXzGmmAxh37a4rtnK789aeevgrk9smwlR6T4jeAl2jFN+tlVu DFSHl3ABjgvIp+nWe6CAAtERkvD5c8aXrbdPo= 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 Received: by 10.224.208.3 with SMTP id ga3mr1071746qab.212.1314991077058; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.80.145 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E612942.7080305@darkmetatron.de> References: <4E612942.7080305@darkmetatron.de> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6cc5cacde0e02b81c1570c3e1f4cdee5 On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sebastian Be=C3=9Fler wrote: > Am 02.09.2011 18:09, schrieb Mark Knecht: > >> I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just -C? > > If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a > dependency. Using --depclean helps because it checks that and only > unmerges if nothing needs it as a dependency anymore. > > Greetings > > Sebastian Fair enough. Thanks. Presumably the use of --depclean doesn't work until you're clear with emerge -DuN @world? I've used this stuff so long I've not learned many of the newer tricks I think. Good stuff. Cheers, Mark