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On Friday 19 August 2005 06:08 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:59:24 +0200, Sébastien MORAND wrote: |
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> > Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the |
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> > documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) |
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> > And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among |
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> > them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) |
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> > Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? |
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> This looks normal. For example, if you have -ldap in USE, you are |
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> unlikely to need perl-ldap. Packages like these are generally only |
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> installed as dependencies, they are not "end user" software, if nothing |
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> needs them, they may as well be removed. |
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> You can run emerge world -uavDN and revdep-rebuild -p after removing |
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> them, just to be certain your system is consistent. |
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Where do we easily find a list of "necessary" files, system files etc... so we |
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dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time |
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now, can I let depclean remove devfsd? |
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