[gentoo-amd64] Re: unmerging slotted group packages

[Duncan]

"Daiajo Tibdixious" <daiajo@×××××.com> posted
a4a9bfcb0701281548i25d6e8ev80659330e67abe6f@××××××××××.com, excerpted
below, on  Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:48:28 +1100:

> I used Neil's awk command to remove kde-3.4 and now --depclean works.
>
> I have now more than 130 orphaned packages. After removing a lot of
> gnome related items (I've never run gnome on this system) and a lot of
> other things I recognised, I still have more than 130 orphaned
> packages, even tho the number of installed packages went from 608 to
> 563!
> This could take a while, especially as revdep-rebuild is complaining a
> lot about stuff I've removed.

Yeah, if you let yourself get behind on general system maintenance, it
/will/ come back to bite you, either if you're unlucky when stuff stops
compiling correctly because of all the cruft laying around or worse yet
when something that hasn't been updated has a security vuln that gets
exploited =8^(, or if you are lucky, you get to the maintenance first, but
it's just a huge hassle because there's so much to sort thru.

> BTW
> FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch fixpackages"

=8^)

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