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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2010-09-02 13:55:24 -0700
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2010-09-03 23:53:16 -0700
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Add warnings advising use of revdep-rebuild in --depclean documentation since _ENABLE_DYN_LINK_MAP is False in the stable branch.
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diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
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--- a/man/emerge.1
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@@ -125,7 +125,10 @@ 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