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diff --git a/docs/development/dependencies.md b/docs/development/dependencies.md
index 236856a6b0..8474525480 100644
--- a/docs/development/dependencies.md
+++ b/docs/development/dependencies.md
@@ -126,6 +126,23 @@ context of poetry's venv, without having to run `poetry shell` beforehand.
poetry install --extras all --remove-untracked
```
+## ...delete everything and start over from scratch?
+
+```shell
+# Stop the current virtualenv if active
+$ deactivate
+
+# Remove all of the files from the current environment.
+# Don't worry, even though it says "all", this will only
+# remove the Poetry virtualenvs for the current project.
+$ poetry env remove --all
+
+# Reactivate Poetry shell to create the virtualenv again
+$ poetry shell
+# Install everything again
+$ poetry install --extras all
+```
+
## ...run a command in the `poetry` virtualenv?
Use `poetry run cmd args` when you need the python virtualenv context.
@@ -243,14 +260,11 @@ doesn't require poetry. (It's what we use in CI too). However, you could try
## Check the version of poetry with `poetry --version`.
-At the time of writing, the 1.2 series is beta only. We have seen some examples
-where the lockfiles generated by 1.2 prereleasese aren't interpreted correctly
-by poetry 1.1.x. For now, use poetry 1.1.14, which includes a critical
-[change](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/5973) needed to remain
-[compatible with PyPI](https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/pull/11775).
+The minimum version of poetry supported by Synapse is 1.2.
It can also be useful to check the version of `poetry-core` in use. If you've
-installed `poetry` with `pipx`, try `pipx runpip poetry list | grep poetry-core`.
+installed `poetry` with `pipx`, try `pipx runpip poetry list | grep
+poetry-core`.
## Clear caches: `poetry cache clear --all pypi`.
@@ -259,6 +273,16 @@ from PyPI. (This is what makes poetry seem slow when doing the first
`poetry install`.) Try `poetry cache list` and `poetry cache clear --all
<name of cache>` to see if that fixes things.
+## Remove outdated egg-info
+
+Delete the `matrix_synapse.egg-info/` directory from the root of your Synapse
+install.
+
+This stores some cached information about dependencies and often conflicts with
+letting Poetry do the right thing.
+
+
+
## Try `--verbose` or `--dry-run` arguments.
Sometimes useful to see what poetry's internal logic is.
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