On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [2] vi /var/lib/portage/world > > What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want. > > All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world. > > I was hoping to accomplish much the same thing by editing world. But > strangely I see only a few candidates to delete (marked with > asterisks): > > /var/lib/portage/world: > app-admin/eselect > app-admin/sysklogd > app-editors/emacs > app-editors/vim > app-misc/screen > ** app-office/openoffice-bin > app-portage/eix > app-portage/gentoolkit > ** kde-base/kde > net-misc/dhcpcd > sys-apps/slocate > sys-boot/grub > sys-devel/gdb > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > ** www-client/seamonkey > ** x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard > ** x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > ** x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev > ** x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa > ** x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga > ** x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware > > However eix -I shows a whole bunch of kde packages. Not to mention > piles of other stuff not mentioned in `world'. >
My rule, for the most part, is that nothing is in /var/lib/portage/world that I don't know I need and that I run by hand. for instance here is a MythTV backend server I brought up 3 weeks ago: Sector9 ~ # cat /var/lib/portage/world app-admin/sudo app-admin/syslog-ng app-editors/vim app-misc/screen app-portage/eix app-portage/gentoolkit app-portage/layman dev-db/mysql media-libs/alsa-oss media-sound/alsa-tools media-sound/alsa-utils media-tv/ivtv media-tv/mythtv media-video/nvidia-settings net-misc/ntp net-print/cups net-print/foomatic net-print/gutenprint sys-apps/baselayout sys-apps/hotplug sys-apps/slocate sys-apps/usbutils sys-boot/grub sys-devel/gcc:3.4 sys-devel/gcc:4.1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-process/vixie-cron x11-base/xorg-x11 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Sector9 ~ # It's pretty clean. The nvidia drivers can probably go as it will mainly be headless. The cups/gutenprint are planning for making it a print server pretty soon. I franlky don't remember much about hotplug anymore. Maybe it can go. >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean >>> To see reverse dependencies, use --verbose Packages installed: 334 Packages in world: 29 Packages in system: 52 Unique package names: 334 Required packages: 334 Number to remove: 0 Sector9 ~ # Anyway, if I have the time I reduce the contents of this file and let emerge --depclean tell me what to clean out. If it's a big list then often I'll do a few by hand, in groups of 5 or so, as copy/paste options. Look at the list, choose 5, emerge -C them, and then do it again. This gives me a little more confidence that I won't emerge -C some system file and cause big problems. One last thing that I've done once or twice when the whole process is complete - I don't think it's mentioned here so far and I don't always do it - but for complete consistency I've gone so far as: emerge -e system emerge -e world and let everything rebuild thus guaranteeing that nothing is left to chance. I usually do that over a weekend or sometime where usage is going to be lower, but as I say I'd only go that far after really big changes or if I was seeing flakey log messages somewhere. Probably a waste of time but it's just a computer and once the list is smaller it's not as slow as you think, especially on a server. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
