On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable through > the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to uninstall anything > to do that level of investigation. revdep-rebuild -I is also useful, > although more historically than now. >
This was essentially Michal Mol's suggestion, and I gave an example where it would remove something important. > Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address really knowing > what your system is running and why. Get to the root of that and the > --update thing becomes the non-issue that many of us think it is. > This would be a suggestion to travel back in time and document something that I have no way of knowing now.
