On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Michael P. Soulier < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > There are chances that it will remove some shared files. To avoid this use revdep-rebuild after emerge --depclean. revdep-rebuild would rebuild all packages with broken libraries/binaries. Python is a bit special: you should use python-updater before unmerging older python. python-updated would reinstall all python modules for newer python. -- Vladimir Rusinov http://greenmice.info/
