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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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