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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Necessity of installer and complete documentation.
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:44:30
Message-Id: 20170730224415.r7htmbscwqcsmu5q@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Necessity of installer and complete documentation. by Rich Freeman
1 On 2017-07-30 17:40, Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > >> Just be careful about uninstalling sets. For whatever reason portage
4 > >> doesn't manage dependencies when you do this.
5 > >
6 > > Do you mean that depclean doesn't remove them?
7 >
8 > The opposite. If you uninstall a set, portage will remove everything
9 > in the set even if something else that is installed still needs it.
10 > Removing a package with --depclean doesn't have this problem.
11
12 But emerge --unmerge on individual packages also ignores dependencies,
13 right? So unmerging a set is no worse in that respect.
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