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Sébastien MORAND wrote: |
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> Hi everybody, |
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> I'm trying to clean my install (one year old, so it's time to do it). I run an |
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> update, and run : |
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> emerge --newuse -Dvu world |
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> It installs a lot of update and so on and do everything ok. |
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> Afterwards, I run : |
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> revdep-rebuild |
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> It makes a lot of rebuild about some broken link, I also uninstall so useless |
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> software and/or lib. |
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> Now, I'm quite sure everything is correctly linked, since runing emerge --newuse |
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> -Dvu world or revdep-rebuild answers : << nothing has to be done >>. |
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> Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation : |
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> emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) |
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> And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a |
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> lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) |
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> Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? |
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Hi Sébastien, |
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It's normal for some packages to become unecessary as you update packages, unmerge packages, and change use flags. Generally, it's best to do a depclean *before* packages are built (via direct emerge or revdep-rebuild). Also, do a revdep-rebuild after a depclean. |
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Zac |
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