What is the best way to clean up the world file?

I have inherited a system where someone did individual emerges to update packages when there was a single package that had a problem. So, now all the packages that emerge wanted to update have been added to the world file.

I'd like to clean up world file so that it's back to just the original packages and allow emerge to manage the dependencies. More specifically, I'd like the standard emerge --depclean to remove no-longer-needed dependencies after removing the things that depended on them.

I can derive a list of the extra dependencies from the /var/log/emerge.log file by looking for clusters of individual installs really close to each other.

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