From f4ddfba033a5e13cf7d4dd83fd0d1a5eb97f9af4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:55:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add warnings advising use of revdep-rebuild in --depclean documentation since _ENABLE_DYN_LINK_MAP is False in the stable branch. --- man/emerge.1 | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 45a7c8486..b53c09940 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -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 -- 2.26.2