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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation/removal
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:22:41
Message-Id: 796b5e91-1128-3a46-232e-3586a18673fc@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation/removal by Martin Gysel
1 On 9/20/17 2:49 AM, Martin Gysel wrote:
2 > Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017, 19:10:23 CEST schrieb Paul Varner:
3 >> emerge --deselect app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
4 >> emerge --depclean app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
5 >>
6 > why deselect it first? From man emerge, --depclean:
7 > "When given one or more atoms, it will unmerge matched packages that have no
8 > reverse dependencies."
9 >
10 Mainly as an extra precaution. However, just --depclean should work.
11 This is the update with the typo pointed out by ulm corrected and
12 changing the command to just be depclean.
13
14 Regards,
15 Paul

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