From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:55:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j3t11b$75k$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110902T175731-216@post.gmane.org>
On 09/02/2011 06:59 PM, James wrote:
> James<wireless<at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
>
>
>> It is time to remove
>> dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
>
> emerge --depclean -pv =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
>[...]
> CAN I TRUST this syntax to test for packages to remove?
You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the
package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are.
Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of
what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't
trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-)
However, "emerge -uDN world" must pass cleanly before you depclean
something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 15:34 [gentoo-user] equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 James
2011-09-02 15:59 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-09-02 16:09 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-02 16:25 ` James
2011-09-02 19:06 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-02 19:17 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-02 19:32 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-03 10:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-03 19:26 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-03 10:55 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-09-03 13:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-03 15:27 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-09-03 18:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-03 20:49 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-09-03 21:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-02 16:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-09-03 13:15 ` Peter Humphrey
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