2015-03-02 8:29 GMT-06:00 Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org>: > So, should I delete all of these? Even glib and glibc? >
Ideally you only want the applications you actually use directly in your world file, and let portage solve the dependencies for those. If you really need to emerge a library installed by hand use 'emerge --oneshot' so it doesn't get added to the world file. I would bet glibc is already in the @system set or pulled as a dependency for that. so yes remove it from your world. > Also - is there a definitive guide (preferably for non programmer types) > on just how to properly clean the world file? > Choose the applications from your world file and "emerge --deselect" everything else, this wont uninstall anything, just delete some lines from the world file. >From my own experience, you could get portage to show errors of 100+ lines for not having a proper world file(and some stupid stuff in package.accept_keywords), and untangle those is not fun at all.
