On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:09:36PM +0000, Roman Gaufman wrote: > Depclean cannot unmerge important packages unless: > 1) emerge path-to-ebuild was used (no longer possible) > 2) user deleted/broken world file (user deserves what he gets ;] ) > 3) acl use flag removed after re-compiling system > > So dont be afraid and run a depclean. It will only remove dependencies > of packages you no longer have.
Extend "3" to general USE flag changes after a build. You are *really* encouraged to first run "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" first, then depclean, and then revdep-rebuild. That's all explained in <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap3> btw. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation & PR project leader The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>>
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