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On Thursday 28 April 2011 14:08:20 Norman Rieß wrote: |
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> Am 04/28/11 14:28, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: |
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> > (I confess to being a little over cautious after xcb.) |
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> > After today's update word (just a few updates were specified/done). |
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> > --depclean recommended |
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> >>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: |
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> > x11-libs/gtk+ |
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> > |
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> > selected: 3.0.9 |
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> > |
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> > protected: none |
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> > |
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> > omitted: 2.24.3 |
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> > |
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> > All selected packages: x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9 |
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> > I am a gnome user so gtk is important and I notice that it is suggesting |
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> > I remove the highest version. I decided not to remove it until I |
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> > checked here. My system is ~amd64 |
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> > |
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> > Advice appreciated. |
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> > allan |
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> |
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> Hi, |
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> you can check with "equery d x11-libs/gtk+" if there is a package which |
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> depends on this version. I expect there will be none, otherwise depclean |
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> would not want to remove it. |
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> If you remove it, you can run "revdep-rebuild" to see if any programs |
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> have broken libs und rebuild them. |
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equery is not the most reliable tool for this purpose. It is better to run: |
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emerge --depclean -v -p '=x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9' |
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This will show all packages that depend on the above version. If none comes |
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up you can allow depclean to do its thing. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |