Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python. Safe to remove??

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just doing a little house cleaning here.  Sort of curious about this tho:
>
> root@smoker / # emerge -p --depclean
>
<SNIP>
>
> dev-lang/python
>   selected: 2.4.4-r13
>  protected: none
>    omitted: 2.5.2-r5
<SNIP>
> root@smoker / # equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13
> [ Searching for packages depending on =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13... ]
> app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1 (python? virtual/python)
> app-office/openoffice-2.4.1 (>=dev-lang/python-2.3.4)
<SNIP>
> sys-apps/file-4.23 (virtual/python)
> sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc3 (>=dev-lang/python-2.4)
> sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.12 (python? dev-lang/python)
> sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r11 (python? >=virtual/python-2.2.1)
> root@smoker / #
>
> I notice some depend on the new python which should be OK since it is
> staying but is it safe to remove the old python?
> Also, I know the kernels are safe but what about subversion, apr and
> friends?  I thought portage used subversion or something?
>
> While I am at it, can equery tell me what depends on that specific version
> of a package?  It seems to just list everything that depends on python
> period the way I am doing it now.  Is there a better tool to check on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dale
>

I'm seeing the same thing here Dale. I got past my problems from
yesterday by first using the older version of python-updater, then
removing the old python, emerging the new python-updater and running
python-updater again. After all of that I have the same two versions
installed that you do and haven't figured out if this stuff is really
'slotted' in the sense that different programs actually require the
older version and cannot use the newer version.

Question: Same as you. How do you check what slotted package something
else is really using? revdep-rebuild possibly?

- Mark