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On Sunday 22 August 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote |
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> > I'm unclear about the aim of your script, what does different from |
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> > "emerge -a --depclean" followed by "revdep-rebuild -- -a"? |
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> The autodepclean script automatically generates a list of of target |
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> ebuuilds to clean out (i.e. "cleanscript"). This gives you the |
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> opportunity to review it and delete items from the list before going |
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> ahead. Does "emerge -a --depclean" allow you to skip individual |
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> items? |
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Ah ok, now i see the point. Usually I prefer to stop depclean (answering |
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no) and specify the exceptions with emerge --noreplace. |
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This is because the exclusion of some packages from depclean can affect |
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the following result of it. |
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If you install a package having many dependencies, with emerge --oneshot |
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and then run emerge --depclean you'll see that is easier to run two |
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times depclean than edit the generated list :) |
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Cheers |
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Francesco |
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07:11:30 CEST 2010 |
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aemaeth |