Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I'm new to gentoo, and I recently changed my USE flags, so I ran > > emerge -p --depclean > > to see what it suggests removing. > > Along with many others, I see > > dev-lang/python > selected: 2.4.4-r13 > protected: none > omitted: 2.5.2-r7 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ equery list | grep dev-lang/python > dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13 > dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7 > > So it's going to remove the redundant python version, is that right? Any > chance of shared files being removed? > > Thanks, > Mike >
Run this, emerge -uvDNp world and see if it wants to emerge anything. man emerge will tell you what the options are for but the -N is the important part. Also, you may want to run python-updater as well just to see if it picks up anything. Basically, you want to make sure everything is using the new version of python before removing the old. --depclean has no clue on that one. Also, anytime you run --depclean, run revdep-rebuild -i afterwards just in case something did get messed up. Always do that before you log out or reboot. I have been known to switch to another console and login before logging out of the other one. Just to be sure. Be very careful with --depclean. It can really mess up something if you are not watching close. Ask first if you're not sure. Dale :-) :-)
