Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I emerge -- depclean and the drivers of keyboard,mouse ,vedio and many > libs of font and many other package have been unmerge. > After revdep-rebuild, i reboot but i even can not startx,and i have to > re-emerge the drivers to startx,and then the libs of font to make my > fonts normal manual accroding to the unmerge messages in > /var/log/emerge.log.And now my audacious can't show my Chinese > characters ever after re-emerge it. > > I just can't understand why "emerge -- depclean" such a dangerous > command can exist or i do it in a wrong way(although i think i am > right). > Does this ever happened to you? > How can you fix it ? >
I think the man page says it very well. > WARNING: Removing some packages may cause packages which link to the > removed package to stop working and complain > about missing libraries. Re-emerge the complaining > package to fix this issue. Note that changes in USE > flags can drastically affect the output of --depclean. > > It is telling you to be careful using that option. What more can you ask for than a warning? It also tells you how to fix it, re-emerge the packages that are missing and are needed. Look in /var/log/emerge.log and see what was removed then re-emerge them one by one until everything works. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
