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On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:58:17 Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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> > depclean only removes packages that it knows for a fact are no longer |
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> > needed. |
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> > This means |
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> > |
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> > - not in world |
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> > - not linked to by anything |
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> > - not depended on by anything |
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> > "not in the tree" is not part of that list. If you have a package in |
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> world |
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> > that is not in the tree anymore, depclean will leave it as is. It will |
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> > remove |
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> > ancient mere deps that are somehow still lying around though |
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> Yep, if the package is in world, delclean will not help. |
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> You could always do it the bash way. I have no idea if there's any tool |
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> out there that will make this easier, but it's simple enough to script it, |
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> something like this should work: |
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> qlist -I --nocolor | while read pkg; do |
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> if [ ! -d "/var/portage/$pkg" ]; then |
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> echo "$pkg is not in portage" |
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> fi |
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> done |
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> This will not catch overlays, but it could be easily extended to do so, |
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> it's just a generic (and untested) example. It should work I guess. It just |
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> dumps the list of installed packages, then tries to find a dir with the |
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> same name under your portage directory and if it doesn't exist then the |
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> package name is printed. |
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The best place for this would be |
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equery orphan <params> |
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or similar. I'm sure the maintainer will gratefully accept patches :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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