Many thanks to all for the responses, will work on cleaning this up next weekend (don't like doing things like this on a production server during the week)...
On 3/2/2015 9:53 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:29:15 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>> Yes, you shouldn't really have any libs in your world file. Any >>> required would be pulled in as dependencies. >> >> Is this in fact true? > > Yes. The world file is for the software you want installed. Portage will > take care of its dependencies. Putting dependencies in world stops > portage doing its job properly and can cause blockers at a leter dTE. > >> >> I checked mine, and found: >> >> # grep -i libs /var/lib/portage/world > [LOTS] >> >> So, should I delete all of these? Even glib and glibc? > > Absolutely, especially glibc. When was the last time YOU used glibc, it > is a dependencies, not a user application. > >> Also - is there a definitive guide (preferably for non programmer types) >> on just how to properly clean the world file? > > Load it into an editor and remove everything that you do not run yourself, > or need as a startup daemon in the case of a server. > > The run emerge --depclean -p and read the output carefully. If there is > anything in there you need, add it with emerge -n pkgname and run > depclean again. > > Rinse and repeat until depclean shows only packages you know you don't > need yourself, then run it again without -p. > >
