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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2009-10-10 01:33:10 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2009-10-10 01:33:10 +0000
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parentDisable EAPI 3_pre1. (diff)
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Revert preserve-libs support since it won't be supported in this branch.
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.7/; revision=14538
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@@ -122,7 +122,10 @@ option in order to see a preview of which packages
will be uninstalled. Always study the list of packages
to be cleaned for any obvious mistakes. Note that packages listed in
package.provided (see \fBportage\fR(5)) may be removed by
-depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
+depclean, even if they are part of the world set. Also note that
+depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is
+recommended to use a tool such as \fBrevdep-rebuild\fR(1)
+in order to detect such breakage.
Depclean serves as a dependency aware
version of \fB\-\-unmerge\fR. When given one or more atoms, it will