Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

[Dale]

Michael Higgins wrote:
> I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries.
>
> Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages.
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> As these packages were new dependencies only needed by 'twinkle' (which failed to install), I'd expect running emerge --prune immediately afterward to remove these unnecessary packages.
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> But it didn't. Something should, however.
>
> Rather than my asserting that --prune is broken, since it apparently does *something* (just not what I'd expect), can someone give me a helpful clue as to what WILL remove these unneeded libraries? '-)
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> Cheers,
>
>

I would think --depclean would take care of that.  I would use the -p
option at first and make sure it is not going to remove something you
want to keep.

Dale

:-)  :-)