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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:57:57
Message-Id: 87k21w5ppg.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22 by Alec Ten Harmsel
1 On Mon, Aug 21 2017, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
2
3 > On 08/21/2017 10:13 AM, allan gottlieb wrote:
4 >>
5 >> I issued emerge --pretend --verbose --depclean =ruby-2.1.9
6 >> and the response was
7 >>
8 >> dev-lang/ruby
9 >> selected: 2.1.9
10 >> protected: none
11 >> omitted: 2.2.6
12 >>
13 >> Am I correct in believing it is now safe to issue
14 >>
15 >> emerge --depclean =ruby-2.1.9
16 >>
17 >> thanks,
18 >> allan
19 >>
20 >
21 > Yes, that should be fine. I rarely look at portage output and just run
22 > `emerge -uDN @world' and `emerge --depclean' right after one another,
23 > and it always works fine for ruby/python upgrades.
24 >
25 > The devs have done such a good job in general that I haven't had any
26 > problems just running these commands the past couple years.
27 >
28 > Alec
29
30 Thanks again. All seems well.
31 allan