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 1QzZV3-0003lr-EN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:34:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6743121C186; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 19:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E614E21C0B4 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 19:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so1832652ewy.40 for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:32:47 -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=kp/8PunFS2z7DxusjX4/x99cTpDIujtnC3Qo6pQBD0s=; b=TqHqNP3qiEeZ05DWJPsEIsHxWu195UvWK2JW4cD83Ml3PPuPUFzQibGgJjRR06VFSW xAK6Oh0SPvZTbL6u0t+1yGxbKO58zpuMOSzytYTPYNSXha/9AImF3mn9q3UJNDaNHyQ8 SPvTCmOaKE3t0atvVkczlmEOHrgtH7otqIvMw= 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 10.14.13.129 with SMTP id b1mr431416eeb.77.1314991966918; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.48.8 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E612942.7080305@darkmetatron.de> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:32:46 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 From: Brennan Shacklett To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016365ee4d6121ab904abfa6d46 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8cb73378744431dd7eb2e090e4a1943c --0016365ee4d6121ab904abfa6d46 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sebastian Be=DFler > 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. --0016365ee4d6121ab904abfa6d46 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:=
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 tri= cks
I think. Good stuff.

Cheers,
Mark


It depends on the package you're trying t= o remove, but often in my=20 experience when using depclean on a single package it works fine without updating world.
Also, -c is an alias for --depclean.
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