#220: unmerging with dependencies
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Reporter: sprotte | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 0.4.7.13
Component: pkgcore | Version: 0.4.7.12
Keywords: |
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Something like
pmerge -C --with-deps
(or even pmerge -C --deep)
to remove a package with all deps and rdeps that are otherwise unneeded.
For example, this should remove both pkgcore and snakeoil, assuming that
nothing else needs snakeoil.
pquery can already find the reverse deps of a package, relatively quickly,
too, so this would be the logical next step.
There could be a warning printed when someone does this, like is with
emerge --depclean and similar.
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