On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51:58 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized > > methodology to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have > > stated above? > > Every entry in the world file that has a reverse dependency could be > removed. Unfortunately there is no tool I know which can calculate > reverse dependencies correctly. Maybe there is some functionality in > pkgcore or paludis which I am not aware of. So others need to inform > us about this.
The loooooong way round is to run 'emerge -pvte world' and look for things listed that are both highlighted in green and indented. Such packages could in theory be removed from world as they must be a dep of something. Intelligence must also be applied of course - somethings are deps and you DO want them in world -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
