Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Anthony Metcalf <Anthony.Metcalf@×××××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:28:45
Message-Id: 47FB48D5.50309@anferny.ath.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages by Michael Schmarck
1 Michael Schmarck wrote:
2 >
3 > Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that
4 > got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed,
5 > because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd
6 > like to find kde-i18n, because that used to be a dependency of
7 > kde-meta and kde-meta is no longer installed).
8 >
9 > Thanks,
10 >
11 > Michael
12 >
13 >
14
15 emerge -p depclean will give you a list of all of those packages, and
16 you can then add to your world file, or uninstall as you see fit....
17
18 Be *extremely* careful with this command though...
19
20 Anthony

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