No, it actually has some problems.. # emerge -p depclean
*** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING *** : UNMERGE ANY PACKAGES. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : USE FLAGS MAY HAVE AN EXTREME EFFECT ON THE OUTPUT. *** WARNING *** : SOME LIBRARIES MAY BE USED BY PACKAGES BUT ARE NOT *** WARNING *** : CONSIDERED TO BE A DEPEND DUE TO USE FLAG SETTINGS. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : Packages in the list that are desired may be added *** WARNING *** : directly to the world file to cause them to be ignored *** WARNING *** : by declean and maintained in the future. BREAKAGES DUE *** WARNING *** : TO UNMERGING AN IN-USE LIBRARIES MAY BE REPAIRED BY *** WARNING *** : MERGING *** THE PACKAGE THAT COMPLAINS *** ABOUT THE *** WARNING *** : MISSING LIBRARY. It will delete dependencies that are required by packages.. It says so right there.. And if that's not enough.. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=depclean&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=depclean&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=depclean&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=depclean There are 4 bugs in gentoo buglist, 2 being packages being cleaned that should not have... > -----Original Message----- > From: Redeeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:57 PM > To: Gentoo Maillinglist > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Philosophical(?) question about 'emerge > unmerge' > > > works here > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:50, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > Isn't it broken?? > > > > > what is wrong with emerge --depclean ? > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- > Regards, Redeeman > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
