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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 :)

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Mike Williams
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