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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, pr@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation/removal
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:47:16
Message-Id: 05337565-b7eb-d0ee-15d0-50f574dfbe9f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation/removal by Paul Varner
1 On 9/20/17 2:22 PM, Paul Varner wrote:
2 > On 9/20/17 2:49 AM, Martin Gysel wrote:
3 >> Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017, 19:10:23 CEST schrieb Paul Varner:
4 >>> emerge --deselect app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
5 >>> emerge --depclean app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
6 >>>
7 >> why deselect it first? From man emerge, --depclean:
8 >> "When given one or more atoms, it will unmerge matched packages that
9 >> have no
10 >> reverse dependencies."
11 >>
12 > Mainly as an extra precaution. However, just --depclean should work.
13 > This is the update with the typo pointed out by ulm corrected and
14 > changing the command to just be depclean.
15 >
16 > Regards,
17 > Paul
18 I just realized that the devmanual says to copy PR on the news items, so
19 they are copied on this message. This should be what gets committed
20 after three days as there have been no more comments on the item.
21
22 Regards,
23 Paul

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