On 09/02/2011 06:59 PM, James wrote:
James<wireless<at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
It is time to remove
dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
emerge --depclean -pv =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
[...]
CAN I TRUST this syntax to test for packages to remove?
You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the
package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are.
Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of
what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't
trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-)
However, "emerge -uDN world" must pass cleanly before you depclean
something.
