On 2017-07-30 17:40, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Just be careful about uninstalling sets. For whatever reason portage > >> doesn't manage dependencies when you do this. > > > > Do you mean that depclean doesn't remove them? > > The opposite. If you uninstall a set, portage will remove everything > in the set even if something else that is installed still needs it. > Removing a package with --depclean doesn't have this problem.
But emerge --unmerge on individual packages also ignores dependencies, right? So unmerging a set is no worse in that respect. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.