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/