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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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Yes, basically my philosophy is only to list in world the actual |
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programs I want to use. Everything else required for them will come in |
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automatically (assuming I also set my USE flags in package.use |
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properly). Some packages have optional run-time deps, say a multimedia |
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program that can convert files if you have ffmpeg installed, so in |
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those cases those optional packages will also be in world. |
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Learning when to use --oneshot and when not was the key to keeping |
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away the clutter :) |
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