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From: Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dangerous to emerge --depclean
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:09:19
Message-Id: 4481A1BB.3030806@vista-express.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dangerous to emerge --depclean by Chuanwen Wu
1 Chuanwen Wu wrote:
2
3 > I emerge -- depclean and the drivers of keyboard,mouse ,vedio and many
4 > libs of font and many other package have been unmerge.
5 > After revdep-rebuild, i reboot but i even can not startx,and i have to
6 > re-emerge the drivers to startx,and then the libs of font to make my
7 > fonts normal manual accroding to the unmerge messages in
8 > /var/log/emerge.log.And now my audacious can't show my Chinese
9 > characters ever after re-emerge it.
10 >
11 > I just can't understand why "emerge -- depclean" such a dangerous
12 > command can exist or i do it in a wrong way(although i think i am
13 > right).
14 > Does this ever happened to you?
15 > How can you fix it ?
16 >
17
18 I think the man page says it very well.
19
20 > WARNING: Removing some packages may cause packages which link to the
21 > removed package to stop working and complain
22 > about missing libraries. Re-emerge the complaining
23 > package to fix this issue. Note that changes in USE
24 > flags can drastically affect the output of --depclean.
25 >
26 >
27
28
29 It is telling you to be careful using that option. What more can you
30 ask for than a warning? It also tells you how to fix it, re-emerge the
31 packages that are missing and are needed. Look in /var/log/emerge.log
32 and see what was removed then re-emerge them one by one until everything
33 works.
34
35 Dale
36 :-) :-)
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