Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Hieu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dangerous to emerge --depclean
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:08:04
Message-Id: e445d4010606030748q7e1b641eya3c73ac64016bb22@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dangerous to emerge --depclean by Chuanwen Wu
1 emerge --depclean should only be used with --pretend/--ask and --verbose
2 (-pv/-av),
3 it existed before to let users know how to unmerge all of the packages Gnome
4 or KDE
5 (large meta-packs).
6
7 Guess now you'll read the man pages before trying something ! :)
8
9 On 03/06/06, Chuanwen Wu <wcw8410@×××××.com> wrote:
10 >
11 > I emerge -- depclean and the drivers of keyboard,mouse ,vedio and many
12 > libs of font and many other package have been unmerge.
13 > After revdep-rebuild, i reboot but i even can not startx,and i have to
14 > re-emerge the drivers to startx,and then the libs of font to make my
15 > fonts normal manual accroding to the unmerge messages in
16 > /var/log/emerge.log.And now my audacious can't show my Chinese
17 > characters ever after re-emerge it.
18 >
19 > I just can't understand why "emerge -- depclean" such a dangerous
20 > command can exist or i do it in a wrong way(although i think i am
21 > right).
22 > Does this ever happened to you?
23 > How can you fix it ?
24 >
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26 > wcw
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