Hi, On Wednesday 08 June 2005 17:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My world file seems remarkably long to me at 129 lines. > I know I've added some stuff, but many of these entries > ring no bells in my memory. > > I think a big part of what has happened is that in various > throes of dealing with portage, I've emerged particular > things without the --oneshot flag -- I had this system for > quite a while before I even knew about that flag. > > So: is there an easy way to find out if a package can > be removed from world because it is already in there > as a dependency or because of the profile? I'd like > to pare world down to just the things that make a > difference.
Yes, the tool available in [1] does this job pretty good! Check the -sw switch for that. take care, have fun /christian [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-260866-highlight-unclepine.html
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