On 30/09/2022 20:46, Matt Connell wrote:
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 20:36 +0100, Wol wrote:
I've noticed that --depclean hardly seems to be cleaning anything out
now. Despite regular emerge updates. I do an emerge update world every
week, followed immediately by a depclean, but it's probably cleaned
maybe one or two packages in the last month? Despite updating loads? Is
that normal?
Unless the dependencies of a package change (or you changed the
resulting set of dependencies via USE changes), they aren't usually a
whole lot of deps to clean. That's my experience anyway. When I'm
flailing around a lot in package.use I'll have dozens but otherwise its
usually just one or two here and there.
Does that mean an update typically cleans a replaced package
automagically? I thought that usually they got left behind and that was
why you needed depclean - to remove all the old versions?
Certainly that's what I remember of depclean of old - the list of stuff
being cleaned was mostly old versions of what was installed.
Cheers,
Wol
