On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:50:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Never blindly accept what depclean says and let it do it's thing. Study the > output, the warning printed on the screen to do just that is there for a > reason. > > Never blindly update protected config files with etc-update etc. Check each > one individually and do it manually. >
One habit I've developed to protect myself from making a mistake with depclean is defining it as an alias in the shell's rc, like this: alias depclean="sudo emerge -vac" That way it's alway verbose and always asks before proceeding. IME it's too easy to forget to use those arguments and if you're doing more than one thing at a time disaster can strike pretty quickly... -- If only my interface to the time-space continuum could be unix-like... With vim keybindings, cron, and everything!
