Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. >> Everything in there must not be in your world file. >> >> Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove >> everything >> X11, glib,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. > Everything in there must not be in your world file. > > Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove > everything > X11, glib, gtk from world. kde? qt does not belong there. > > With a litt

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 May 2009 00:11:12 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Edit the world file and remove every version number in that file if > > present. You don;t need it and portage is infinitely better at tracking > > it than you are. Then remove everything with a category e

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Edit the world file and remove every version number in that file if >> present. You don;t need it and portage is infinitely better at tracking it >> than you are. Then remove everything with a category

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Edit the world file and remove every version number in that file if > present. You don;t need it and portage is infinitely better at tracking it > than you are. Then remove everything with a category ending in "lib", these > rarely need to be in world

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and >> > world will not be bloated at all

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and > > world will not be bloated at all. > > Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
fe...@crowfix.com schrieb am 19.05.2009 20:25: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world >> will not be bloated at all. > > Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread felix
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world > will not be bloated at all. Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants to.> -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ ._

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 May 2009, at 18:32, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: ... So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to world-bloated and running emerge --depclean -p just to see what would happen. The answer is ... a loop! It appears you no longer have a world file (because you moved it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with > --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I > update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into > emerge without the benefit of --onesho

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 19:32:01 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with > --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I > update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into > emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > So, what is the proper way to recreate a proper world file? If > depclean can finally run one of these days when gentoo gets back in > sync, is staring with an empty world file as good as anything else? No, starting with your existin

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with > --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I > update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into > emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. > > So t

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread felix
In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to