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At Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:32:24 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> msoulier@anton:~$ emerge --pretend --depclean |
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> *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is |
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> *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from |
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> *** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in order to detect such breakage. |
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> *** WARNING *** |
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> *** WARNING *** Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious |
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> *** WARNING *** mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always |
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> *** WARNING *** be kept. They can be manually added to this set with |
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> *** WARNING *** `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in |
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> *** WARNING *** package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by |
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> *** WARNING *** depclean, even if they are part of the world set. |
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> *** WARNING *** |
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> *** WARNING *** As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages |
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> *** WARNING *** unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a |
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> *** WARNING *** consequence, it is often necessary to run |
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> *** WARNING *** `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to depclean. |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to |
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> the following required packages not being installed: |
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>>=virtual/perl-Compress-Zlib-1.14 required by dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.23 |
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> virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder required by perl-core/File-Spec-3.27.01 |
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> Have you forgotten to run `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to |
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> depclean? It may be necessary to manually uninstall packages that no longer |
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> exist in the portage tree since it may not be possible to satisfy their |
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> dependencies. Also, be aware of the --with-bdeps option that is documented |
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> in `man emerge`. |
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> In running emerge --update --newuse --deep world, it yields nothing. |
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Did you try emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y world |
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as hinted at by the above msg? |
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allan |