On Thursday 28 April 2011 14:08:20 Norman Rieß wrote: > Am 04/28/11 14:28, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > > (I confess to being a little over cautious after xcb.) > > > > After today's update word (just a few updates were specified/done). > > --depclean recommended > > > >>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > x11-libs/gtk+ > > > > selected: 3.0.9 > > > > protected: none > > > > omitted: 2.24.3 > > > > All selected packages: x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9 > > > > I am a gnome user so gtk is important and I notice that it is suggesting > > I remove the highest version. I decided not to remove it until I > > checked here. My system is ~amd64 > > > > Advice appreciated. > > allan > > Hi, > > you can check with "equery d x11-libs/gtk+" if there is a package which > depends on this version. I expect there will be none, otherwise depclean > would not want to remove it. > If you remove it, you can run "revdep-rebuild" to see if any programs > have broken libs und rebuild them.
equery is not the most reliable tool for this purpose. It is better to run: emerge --depclean -v -p '=x11-libs/gtk+-3.0.9' This will show all packages that depend on the above version. If none comes up you can allow depclean to do its thing. -- Regards, Mick
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