-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:03, gabriel wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:54, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, > > use 'dep-clean -U'. > > maybe a stupid question, but if "emerge depclean" is a bad thing to use, > then why is it there? or at the very least marked with "developer use > only"?
sauron root # emerge depclean *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING *** : UNMERGE ANY PACKAGES. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : USE FLAGS MAY HAVE AN EXTREME EFFECT ON THE OUTPUT. *** WARNING *** : SOME LIBRARIES MAY BE USED BY PACKAGES BUT ARE NOT *** WARNING *** : CONSIDERED TO BE A DEPEND DUE TO USE FLAG SETTINGS. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : Packages in the list that are desired may be added *** WARNING *** : directly to the world file to cause them to be ignored *** WARNING *** : by depclean and maintained in the future. BREAKAGES DUE *** WARNING *** : TO UNMERGING AN ==IN-USE LIBRARY== MAY BE REPAIRED BY *** WARNING *** : MERGING *** THE PACKAGE THAT COMPLAINS *** ABOUT THE *** WARNING *** : MISSING LIBRARY. >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Depclean in: 10 9 sauron root # Warning enough I think :) - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/eZxaInuLMrk7bIwRAuIIAJ9IIR5CktalVgkUiv+zBsT4v/rYLQCeLqPc as6tvLtBoS4Cv8a8C/CCc60= =Z5x0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list