Michael Higgins wrote: > I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild > neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. > > Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, > the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages. > > As these packages were new dependencies only needed by 'twinkle' (which > failed to install), I'd expect running emerge --prune immediately afterward > to remove these unnecessary packages. > > But it didn't. Something should, however. > > Rather than my asserting that --prune is broken, since it apparently does > *something* (just not what I'd expect), can someone give me a helpful clue as > to what WILL remove these unneeded libraries? '-) > > Cheers, > >
I would think --depclean would take care of that. I would use the -p option at first and make sure it is not going to remove something you want to keep. Dale :-) :-)
