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 1QzvsO-0000Fe-Rq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:27:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7A6E21C140; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f48.google.com (mail-qw0-f48.google.com [209.85.216.48]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3894221C034 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so2894293qwj.21 for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:26:09 -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; bh=VTWmg1hCOQgygZSJDF28vYThh4YGSc9bAw5Q5Kf7vcU=; b=lC1WJRhIRLmim5d1IiKm3Ab6ciVnIOZs3AXs0kBVvKDR00XVmGl6vWtokQ3EzFFvph 6cq92KL1gLb4FvXOyeAysYTOEmqR22le3gAyTT0VWWU2Gs9ZNDTWOb7Gmx+wyqtWmC75 VgHI9pmrOSbpXTB7Lu4F3OxczspZZG2uYHP7s= 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 10.224.203.196 with SMTP id fj4mr1714951qab.362.1315077969466; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.80.145 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:26:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110903111320.2f2e7f75@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <4E612942.7080305@darkmetatron.de> <20110903111320.2f2e7f75@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:26:09 -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 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 73a2fffbd4aa552f0bc94a3ed12a3b06 On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> 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. > > I believe the -C output recommends using --depclean instead now. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick Hi Neil, Yeah, I think that's been true for awhile. However I'm fairly selective about actually using --depclean when I can use -C, but that's just me personally. In the case of the OP if I wanted to remove exactly 1 package then personally I'd just use -C followed by emerge -pvDuN @world or maybe revdep-rebuild -ip. But again, that's me. --depclean is probably best for removing lots of things, and as I think is clear from this thread, I didn't even know that --depclean followed by a package name was even supported. Cheers, Mark