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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
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Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > emerge --depclean -pv =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2

> I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just -C?

I found this syntax googling (hi Neil)...

Since the purpose is to remove pacakges, I guess depclean works the
best? Dunno really, just found it googling.

> Prior to doing anything please ensure that you have eselect python
> setup correctly for a python-2.7 package that's on the machine.

It has been set to 2.7 for a long time.