On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:09:56 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > emerge -p --depclean > > generates dire warnings.
I wouldn't call this dire * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by * depclean, even if they are part of the world set. There used to be big scary warnings in the past, but that was years ago and depclean seems very reliable now. I'd certainly trust a feature maintained by the portage devs more than a home-brewed script -- Neil Bothwick There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.
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