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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Thanks guys. I understand how portage works and what to do to clean |
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>> things up. That part isn't an issue this time around. |
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>> I'm more trying to understand whether this is just left over from old |
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>> installs and hasn't gotten cleaned up along the way. I had about 6 |
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>> emul-linux packages. The all were dependencies of the two that are |
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>> left so I simply removed them from the world file knowing they'd stay |
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>> in and didn't need to be listed. Clearly I can remove these last two |
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>> from world and they'll all go away but before I did that I just wanted |
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>> to make sure there wasn't anything magic about them. For instance, |
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>> maybe the emul-java file is some subset of running java in |
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>> firefox-bin? If it was would it show up as a dependency? I don't know. |
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>> None of this is a big deal. I was just poking around and decided to do |
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>> an early spring cleaning. |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Mark |
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> |
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> My understanding is that nothing goes into world unless you explicitly |
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> put it there (either by directly editing the file or by emerging that |
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> package directly). So you shouldn't need to worry about dependencies |
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> or anything. If that package is needed by something else you've got |
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> installed, it'll stay regardless of whether it is in world or not. |
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> |
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> Paul |
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Right, absolutely right. But one weakness in this regard would be with |
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revdep-rebuild. Maybe it finds a bunch of things that got broken and |
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gives you a list you can run to clean things up. If for some reason |
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they are not run --one-shot (like maybe I make a mistake, copy a few |
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but not all of the list and forget the -1 that it puts in) then I end |
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up with something in my world file that didn't fundamentally need to |
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be there. |
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It's not that the tools are wrong. They are probably fine. But after a |
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few years of updating packages stuff gets overlooked or gets in when |
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you aren't wide awake... |
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I feel like in the old days we had to have some emul-linux packages in |
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so as to get win32codecs and the like to work. Is that not still true? |
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I'll go read whatever the current install docs suggest and see what I |
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might learn. I built this machine 4-5 years ago so it's been awhile. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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- Mark |
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