Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Tom Martin <slarti@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:03:10
Message-Id: 20060104015742.1ae3cc14@pohl.lj.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages by Ernie Schroder
1 On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:51:47 -0500
2 Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > Justin Hart wrote:
5 >
6 > >There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer
7 > >required, and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right?
8 > >--
9 > >Justin W. Hart
10 > >
11 > >
12 > >
13 > # emerge -depclean --pretend will give you a list of orphaned
14 > packages. USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof.
15
16 Although I'd still recommend caution, emerge -uDN world beforehand will
17 make things substantially more reliable.
18
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20 Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti
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