On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:53:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> emerge -C does the same.  It's just that I find it easier to edit the 
> world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in 
> there) if I want to clean up stuff.  If you don't want to delete 
> something from world by hand, simply copy&pasting the line you want 
> removed to "emerge -C <pasted line>" will have the same result.

That's true if you know you want to remove the package, but if you are
cleaning the world file of dependencies that are in there, just edit the
file and let portage decide whether the package should be unmerged.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

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