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| -rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pym/_emerge/help.py | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index c707496cf..3598dacd5 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ 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 diff --git a/pym/_emerge/help.py b/pym/_emerge/help.py index fe034afe0..34c0e1d29 100644 --- 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 |