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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Leonid Podolny wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't |
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>>> find any such discussions. |
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>>> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed |
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>>> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to |
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>>> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that |
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>>> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a |
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>>> list of those packages. |
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>> |
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>> emerge --depclean -p and make sure everything looks OK. |
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> That's not what it does :P depclean only removes packages that are not |
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> in world and are not a dependency of another package. You can emerge |
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> package foo from overlay bar and then remove the overlay, but depclean |
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> won't clean it because it's still in world. |
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> |
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Exactly :) |
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Thanks for the pointer to eix, its man page says that |
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"eix-test-obsolete" does exactly that. |
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