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 1NpUu8-0007Tn-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:01:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C84DE08D3; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EBDE08D3 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D6E1B4016 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.021 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.021 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.422, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xqnTSeAnO187 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CA51B44A3 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpT4I-0006bo-IR for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:03:50 +0100 Received: from athedsl-373807.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.12.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:03:50 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373807.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:03:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:03:55 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org> <20100310170508.7617f250@digimed.co.uk> <4B97FE0E.2000307@libertytrek.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-373807.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100307 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <4B97FE0E.2000307@libertytrek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 2cc166d7-15bb-494f-9b6d-e57193a4b87a X-Archives-Hash: 56f5d804f1410f15c465bd1308451c51 On 03/10/2010 10:16 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one >> of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone. > > Understood, thanks... > > Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above will 'ask' > me if I want to continue and remove the packages it finds, correct? > Meaning, it won't just blindly go ahead and start ripping stuff out... > > How does that differ from 'emerge -p --depclean'? "emerge -p" will only print what it would merge/unmerge and then quits without asking. You can run this as normal user, no need to be root. "emerge -a" will print what it would merge/unmerge and then ask if you want to proceed. You have to be root to use this command. If you are not root and use "emerge -a", portage will turn it into an "emerge -p" and tell you that it did so because you are not root.