On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote:
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From: Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com>
On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote:
From: Neil BothwickTo:
(PST), BRM wrote:
Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge
--depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't
install things left or right to try out either, so typically
upgrades are all I need to do.
You should still run --depclean as dependencies change and you
could still have plenty of no longer needed ones installed.
Okay - so I ran "emerge --depclean -a" and got the below. I tried
running "emerge world -vuDNa" as specified, but that didn't resolve
it either.
I tried looking in the world file (/var/lib/portage/world) but didn't
find any entries that felt safe to remove.
"Safe" as to what? If something is in the world file that you didn't
explicitly request, then it doesn't belong there. For example, if you have
"x11-libs/qt-gui" in world, you should delete it. The world file should not
contain dependencies, it should only contain the stuff you emerged directly.
Okay...that kind of makes more sense now.
From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-no, and
very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran 'emerge
--depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove now that I've got
that cleaned up.
emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the
world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in
there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete
something from world by hand, simply copy&pasting the line you want
removed to "emerge -C <pasted line>" will have the same result.
Of course there might be special cases I simply don't know about; so
simply emerge -C instead of removing lines from world if you want to
play it safe.
