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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:14:28
Message-Id: 20110903111320.2f2e7f75@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 by Mark Knecht
1 On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 > >> I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just
4 > >> -C?
5 > >
6 > > If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a
7 > > dependency. Using --depclean helps because it checks that and only
8 > > unmerges if nothing needs it as a dependency anymore.
9 > >
10 > > Greetings
11 > >
12 > > Sebastian
13 >
14 > Fair enough. Thanks. Presumably the use of --depclean doesn't work
15 > until you're clear with emerge -DuN @world?
16 >
17 > I've used this stuff so long I've not learned many of the newer tricks
18 > I think. Good stuff.
19
20 I believe the -C output recommends using --depclean instead now.
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24 Neil Bothwick
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26 This chicken has no beak, said Tom impeccably.

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