From 99a63a5f23beaacddf0ed3cf7f731716abbaa8c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:04:59 +0000 Subject: Add note in --depclean docs about link level dependency breakage. svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12088 --- pym/_emerge/help.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'pym') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22