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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 07 September 2005 04:04, Ben Munat wrote: |
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>>So, how do I wind up with 17 packages that need to be updated? Hmm, perhaps |
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>>these are all packages on my system that are neither in my world file nor |
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>>depdencies of stuff in my world file? Would that then make them orphaned? |
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>>And theoretically safe to delete? How does one find out if a specific |
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>>package is required by any other packages again? |
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> Only packages you explicitly emerge are recorded in the world profile |
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> (/var/lib/portage/world) dependencies are not. See the man pages for portage |
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> and emerge for more details. |
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> HTH |
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Thanks... however, I knew this much -- found that I have to be careful with this when |
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getting going on a new gentoo system. It's handy to say "emerge somephpapp" and get php |
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and mysql in the process... except then they're not in my world file.... though I suppose |
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I can always just add them by hand. |
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But doing an "emerge -D world" should find any dependencies of anything in the world file |
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that need updating, right? So, my questions still stand: are these packages that |
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glsa-check is finding stuff that other packages depended on at one point -- so they got |
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pulled in -- but are now no longer needed? And what tool can I use to ascertain this? |
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"emerge --depclean" is basically useless... it always wants to uninstall things that I'm |
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fairly sure are needed. "etcat" doesn't seem to have anything for finding dependecies. And |
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"equery depends" is still "unimplemented"... (though I thought I'd used that at one point |
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but it seems to find no results for everything I try). |
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Ideas anyone? What do you use to keep orphaned packages off your system? |
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