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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-11-25 07:04:59 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-11-25 07:04:59 +0000
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Add note in --depclean docs about link level dependency breakage.
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diff --git a/pym/_emerge/help.py b/pym/_emerge/help.py
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--- a/pym/_emerge/help.py
+++ b/pym/_emerge/help.py
@@ -91,7 +91,10 @@ def help(myaction,myopts,havecolor=1):
"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 portage(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 revdep-rebuild(1) " + \
+ "in order to detect such breakage."
for line in wrap(paragraph, desc_width):
print desc_indent + line