On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:33:04 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Yes they have. Remove anything in the least suspect and emerge -cp. > > Then emerge -n anything listed that you need. > > I don't know which ones I need, and I can't just remove them and cross > my fingers, because these are live servers.
You remove them from the world file, not the system. Then run emerge -cp to seen what would be depcleaned. Nothing is uninstalled and nothing stops working. > > There was a script floating around that created a new world file that > > contained all installed packages that were not a dependency of another > > installed package. It's not a perfect fix, but pretty close. > > I gave a concrete example from one of our web servers where this would > remove something important. How so? If anything that was not a dependency of something else was in the world file, how could anything be removed? -- Neil Bothwick I'm not a complete idiot - several parts are missing.
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