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From: KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System clean-up - removing unneeded packages *and* dependencies not used by other packages
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:43:26
Message-Id: 4BCA0F37.3080009@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] System clean-up - removing unneeded packages *and* dependencies not used by other packages by Jarry
1 Am 17.04.2010 21:30, schrieb Jarry:
2 > On 17. 4. 2010 21:20, Tanstaafl wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Whats the best way to uninstall a package - in this case, openldap, but
5 >> really for any package - and get all of the dependencies it pulls in,
6 >> but only ones that are not required for other unrelated (to openldap)
7 >> packages?
8 >
9 > I'm using this sequence:
10 >
11 > emerge -C <packagename>
12 > emerge --depclean
13 > revdep-rebuild
14 >
15 >
16 > Jarry
17 >
18
19 Or:
20
21 emerge --depclean <atom>
22
23 Depclean serves as a dependency aware version of --unmerge. When
24 given one or more atoms, it will unmerge matched packages that have no
25 reverse dependencies. Use --depclean together with --verbose to show
26 reverse dependencies.
27
28 kh

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