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> Boris has the right answer, but skipped a step or two in his |
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> explanation. You are correct that "emerge -C" will not remove |
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> dependant packages. But emerge --depclean never removes anything that |
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> is in your world file. |
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>[snip] |
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> Some more time passes, you realize you have a lot of crap you are not |
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> using installed, and decide to cleanup a bit, starting with "emerge -C |
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> xfce4". xfce4 is a metabuild that has no files, so that goes really |
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> quick, and doesn't really get rid of anything. Now you do "emerge |
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> --depclean world", figuring that will clean out dependancies. But |
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> because you have all of those xfce4 |
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> packages in your world file, depclean doesn't want to remove any of them. |
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OK, now I understand. Thanks a lot. |
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I always thought that world was just "the set of all packages installed |
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in my system" and that --oneshot was just a way to override updates. |
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Probably I didn't read the gentoo manual very well :) |
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m. |
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