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Hi, |
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I haven't done this in quite awhile so this evening I started |
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looking at dependencies a bit. I thought I might take a shot at |
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cleaning things up old stuff left around from updates over the last |
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year or so. I ran emerge -p --depclean and was told that there were |
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about 45 things to remove so I decided I'd try removing a few |
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one-at-a-time and see how it went. First I sync'ed and did an emerge |
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-DuN world and made sure the machine was up to date. I then removed |
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what seemed like a pretty random entry late on the list - imlib - and |
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then a revdep-rebuild -p to see what it thought. I was then told I |
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needed to emerge revisions of two new things - gnome-lib and |
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gtk-pixbuf - neither of which existed according to both emerge and |
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eix. I then re-emerged imlib, reran revdep-rebuild and now I see the |
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machine is consistent again. |
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What's up with that? |
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I then tried again with something called 'jasper'. Rerunning |
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revdep-rebuild is now telling me it needs to reemerge netpbm and this |
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will pick up jasper again. I did that emerge and reran revdep-rebuild |
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again and the machine is once again clean. |
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What's up with that? |
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Is this a question that certain ebuilds are not written correctly |
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and don't somehow call for the right dependencies, or is it something |
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else? |
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Also, is there any better tool these days for cleaning up stale |
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packages left around than emerge --depclean? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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