Sébastien MORAND wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to clean my install (one year old, so it's time to do it). I run an
update, and run :
emerge --newuse -Dvu world
It installs a lot of update and so on and do everything ok.
Afterwards, I run :
revdep-rebuild
It makes a lot of rebuild about some broken link, I also uninstall so useless
software and/or lib.
Now, I'm quite sure everything is correctly linked, since runing emerge --newuse
-Dvu world or revdep-rebuild answers : << nothing has to be done >>.
Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation :
emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done)
And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a
lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...)
Is this result normal ? What did I miss ?
Hi Sébastien,
It's normal for some packages to become unecessary as you update packages,
unmerge packages, and change use flags. Generally, it's best to do a depclean
*before* packages are built (via direct emerge or revdep-rebuild). Also, do a
revdep-rebuild after a depclean.
Zac
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