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On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51:58 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> > Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized |
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> > methodology to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have |
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> > stated above? |
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> Every entry in the world file that has a reverse dependency could be |
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> removed. Unfortunately there is no tool I know which can calculate |
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> reverse dependencies correctly. Maybe there is some functionality in |
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> pkgcore or paludis which I am not aware of. So others need to inform |
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> us about this. |
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The loooooong way round is to run 'emerge -pvte world' and look for things |
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listed that are both highlighted in green and indented. Such packages could |
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in theory be removed from world as they must be a dep of something. |
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Intelligence must also be applied of course - somethings are deps and you DO |
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want them in world |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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