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On 03/10/2010 10:16 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one |
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>> of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone. |
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> Understood, thanks... |
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> Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above will 'ask' |
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> me if I want to continue and remove the packages it finds, correct? |
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> Meaning, it won't just blindly go ahead and start ripping stuff out... |
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> How does that differ from 'emerge -p --depclean'? |
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"emerge -p" will only print what it would merge/unmerge and then quits |
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without asking. You can run this as normal user, no need to be root. |
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"emerge -a" will print what it would merge/unmerge and then ask if you |
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want to proceed. You have to be root to use this command. |
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If you are not root and use "emerge -a", portage will turn it into an |
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"emerge -p" and tell you that it did so because you are not root. |
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