On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:46:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Another possibility is that ypou merged them with the --oneshot > > > option, or that they were pulled in as a dependency of a package you > > > no longer have (or has been updated to a version that is no longer > > > dependent on them). What does "emerge --depclean -p" show? > > > > Along with dire warnings about ruining your system it lists 80 pkgs to > > be removed. Some are also on the eix-test-obsolete list of 14. > > > > I suspect I had better not allow it to actually remove these pkgs. > > I think you should, as long as nothing system-critical is listed, and > emerge shouts loudly about removing those. >
On a long list of packages to be cleaned I find it comforting to use emerge -C package1 package2 package3 and watch closely so that nothing system oriented gets taken out. I've made the mistake of doing emerge --depclean on a long list of files and then having a system that was hard to fix. Just my take on being careful. - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
