On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sebastian Beßler <sebast...@darkmetatron.de> wrote: > Am 02.09.2011 18:09, schrieb Mark Knecht: > >> I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just -C? > > If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a > dependency. Using --depclean helps because it checks that and only > unmerges if nothing needs it as a dependency anymore. > > Greetings > > Sebastian
Fair enough. Thanks. Presumably the use of --depclean doesn't work until you're clear with emerge -DuN @world? I've used this stuff so long I've not learned many of the newer tricks I think. Good stuff. Cheers, Mark
