From: "Vladimir Rusinov" <vladimir@greenmice.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:48:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6fdfb550811120148q1fa3c8c5v1594be5a782da377@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081112044126.GA4995@anton.digitaltorque.ca>
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Michael P. Soulier <
msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> I'm new to gentoo, and I recently changed my USE flags, so I ran
>
> emerge -p --depclean
>
> to see what it suggests removing.
>
> Along with many others, I see
>
> dev-lang/python
> selected: 2.4.4-r13
> protected: none
> omitted: 2.5.2-r7
>
> msoulier@anton:~$ equery list | grep dev-lang/python
> dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13
> dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7
>
> So it's going to remove the redundant python version, is that right? Any
> chance of shared files being removed?
>
There are chances that it will remove some shared files.
To avoid this use revdep-rebuild after emerge --depclean. revdep-rebuild
would rebuild all packages with broken libraries/binaries.
Python is a bit special: you should use python-updater before unmerging
older python. python-updated would reinstall all python modules for newer
python.
--
Vladimir Rusinov
http://greenmice.info/
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 4:41 [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean Michael P. Soulier
2008-11-12 5:00 ` Dale
2008-11-12 9:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-12 17:13 ` Dale
2008-11-12 21:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-13 19:29 ` Dale
2008-11-12 9:19 ` KH
2008-11-12 17:15 ` Dale
2008-11-12 9:48 ` Vladimir Rusinov [this message]
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