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| Edit | Post #284502 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Which Linux system to use? Beginner: Assuming you have experience with Windows, my vote for best beginner Linux is the quaintly named Puppy Linux. It is a LiveCD distro. You just stick it on a CD or thumb drive, and boot up the machine. (Assuming your PC can boot from CD and USB drives—almost all can.) It runs i... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283088 |
The information in the manpage is *slightly* more useful (emphasis mine):
"As a consequence, it is often necessary to run emerge --update --newuse --deep @world **prior to depclean**."
So I'd guess the command gets a stale system to a state where all current dependencies are properly accounted f... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |