Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge --depclean question

[Mark Knecht]

On 12/31/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
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> Basically, it's a process of using --depclean -p, and getting a list, then
> using common sense and trial and error to figure out what's safe to remove
> and what's not.  It's not an easy or simple process, which is why there
> are such big warnings on it.  However, it's worthwhile to do once in
> awhile, both because it helps keep the troubles away, and because stuff
> that it says needs removed is stuff portage won't be regularly updating,
> and that can quickly become a security issue if there's a vulnerability in
> one of those packages.
>

Hi Duncan,
   I'm proceeding along getting a number of packages removed which is
good. However here's an example one I'm not sure how to handle or why
it's showing up. I've run --depclean -p and see what appears to be an
unneeded library called libwmf. However when I try tracing my way back
to find what depending on it I eventually get to xine-ui which I use
all the time:

lightning ~ # equery d libwmf
[ Searching for packages depending on libwmf... ]
media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5
lightning ~ # equery d imagemagick
[ Searching for packages depending on imagemagick... ]
gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.2
media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2-r3
media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r3
lightning ~ # equery d xine-lib
[ Searching for packages depending on xine-lib... ]
media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1
media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716
media-video/totem-2.16.4
lightning ~ #

   I'm pretty sure that if I removed libwfm I'd find I had to reinstall it.

   Am I missing something or incorrect in how I'm tracing back through things?

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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