On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sebastian Beßler > <[email protected]> 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 > > It depends on the package you're trying to remove, but often in my experience when using depclean on a single package it works fine without updating world. Also, -c is an alias for --depclean.
