On Friday 06 February 2004 08:11 am, Mike Williams wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Friday 06 February 2004 10:49, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> > How can I find the packages that were required
> > during the installation of a package?
> >
> > This question arose when unmerging a package
> > that possibly required several other packages
> > when it was installed. I would like to unmerge
> > packages that were installed as a requirement
> > and are not needed.
>
> emerge depclean -p
> CHECK THE OUTPUT, and take heed of the warning
> emerge depclean

Warnings are enough for me to avoid depclean altogether.  I do an 
"emerge -p prog > prog.txt".  Then, if I need to unemerge prog, I have 
a list of what else has been installed, and go from there.

-- 
Ed Jabbour

--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Reply via email to