Dale schrieb:
> Michael Higgins wrote:
>
>> I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild
>> neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries.
>>
>> Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing,
>> the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages.
>>
>> As these packages were new dependencies only needed by 'twinkle' (which
>> failed to install), I'd expect running emerge --prune immediately afterward
>> to remove these unnecessary packages.
>>
>> But it didn't. Something should, however.
>>
>> Rather than my asserting that --prune is broken, since it apparently does
>> *something* (just not what I'd expect), can someone give me a helpful clue
>> as to what WILL remove these unneeded libraries? '-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>
> I would think --depclean would take care of that. I would use the -p
> option at first and make sure it is not going to remove something you
> want to keep.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
>
hi,
you can also use --depclean -av so you want have to tip twice ;-)
kh
