On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sebastian Beßler
> <sebastian@darkmetatron.de> 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
>
>
It depends on the package you're trying to remove, but often in my
experience when using depclean on a single package it works fine without
updating world.
Also, -c is an alias for --depclean.