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. > 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. However, if this advice does break your computer, feel free to keep the pieces :) -- Neil Bothwick ASSISTANT MANAGER: Feminine form of the word manager (q.v.).
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