On 12/07/17 10:05, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > I should have caught that sooner. -c does not remove a package, it just > removes its deps. > > -c == --depclean.
--depclean is doing exactly what it is supposed to. If called with no arguments, it searches for any unneeded dependencies and removes them, however if called with a package as an argument, it will remove that package *if it is not a dependency of another package*. Reporting "nothing to remove" is precisely what it's supposed to do, and using --verbose will tell you what is depending on the package. To be clear, running '--depclean foo' does not remove dependencies of foo, it removes foo provided it is not a dependency. It can be seen as a dependency-aware (and thus, generally safe) --unmerge. Making --depclean _always_ give you more information should just be a case of adding --verbose to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS. > It is not the same as -C, which is remove a package directly. > > --unmerge (-C) Correct, --unmerge will remove a package without considering dependencies (give or take a few special cases). It is usually (or, at least, should generally be) reserved for those taking a hammer to a problem or with a particular desire to recover a broken system. Again, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to - removing a package you've told it to remove (unless it's one of the few almost-always-critical packages). -- Sam Jorna (wraeth) GnuPG ID: D6180C26
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