Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:30:54 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > >> Has anyone here used it? Is it the best means available to clean the >> world file? Anything in the gentoo tree to do this? > > I've done this manually in the past. Edit /var/lib/world and remove > everything you think shouldn't be in there. Be brutal, if you never run > the program directly, you probably don't want it in world. > > Then run "emerge --depclean --pretend". If this lists any packages you > know you want (directly, not as dependencies) add them to world with > "emerge -n package". > > Rinse and repeat. > > Finally, when everything listed by "emerge --depclean" is not something > you want to keep, run it without --pretend. > > Thanks Neil. I think I'll use this along with the recommendations of dep. With 119 packages in the world file, I'll have to be VERY brutal.
Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
