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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:44:04
Message-Id: 489642B0.9030700@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Montag, 4. August 2008, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my
7 >> world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running
8 >> regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date?
9 >>
10 >> The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the
11 >> -1 option when working on getting a dependency to install. It adds up
12 >> after a while.
13 >>
14 >> Ideas?
15 >>
16 >>
17 >
18 > nano -w /var/lib/portage/world
19 > ctrl-k on the lines you think are superfluos. Done.
20 >
21 >
22
23 Thing is, I have no clue which ones are "superfluos" tho. That is the
24 problem.
25
26 I used Kwrite by the way. LOL I also liked that they appear to be in
27 alphabetical order tho. Not sure if that was a feature or what. o_O
28
29 Thanks
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)