Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think you should, as long as nothing system-critical is listed, and > emerge shouts loudly about removing those. >
I think your are probably right... >> For example, one of the listed pkgs is: >> >> gnome-base/libgnomeui >> >> which equery says `firefox' and `etherape' depend on. > > equery depends is unreliable as it doesn't take proper account of USE > dependencies. What's the worst that can happen if you unmerge libgnomeui? > Probably that you can't start a GNOME desktop until it is re-emerged. As > long as you don't unmerge anything fro system and you run a deep world > update after a depclean, preferably followed by a revdep-rebuild, you > should be OK. I don't even use gnome desktop at all ... I'm a kde fan. So I guess I should get it done... Its good to have confirmed that `equery depends' is not that reliable... I'd developed that apprehension a while ago. I somehow doubt that firefox will cease to work if I unmerge libgnomeui. So here goes nothing... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
