Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:35:06
Message-Id: 3365493.UkBktHl0mx@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 16 August 2017 18:07:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > emerge -cpv cat/pkg will tell you whether the package can be removed or
4 > if it is needed by something else. It will take a while to run it for
5 > every atom in @world but it will give reliable results, as determined by
6 > portage.
7
8 That's what I've been doing too, except that I omitted the -v since I don't
9 care which other package depends on this one, just that some package does,
10 and then I can delete it from world.
11
12 --
13 Regards,
14 Peter.