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On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:29:15 -0500 |
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Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Googling on a minor issue with perl-cleaner after the 5.20 upgrade, I |
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> ran across this post: |
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> On 2/14/2015 7:39 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Yes, you shouldn't really have any libs in your world file. Any |
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> > required would be pulled in as dependencies. |
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> Is this in fact true? |
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> I checked mine, and found: |
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> # grep -i libs /var/lib/portage/world |
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> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs |
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> dev-libs/apr |
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> dev-libs/apr-util |
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> dev-libs/boost |
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> dev-libs/elfutils |
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> dev-libs/glib |
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> dev-libs/gmp |
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> dev-libs/libaio |
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> dev-libs/libdnet |
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> dev-libs/libevent |
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> dev-libs/libffi |
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> dev-libs/libgcrypt |
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> dev-libs/libgpg-error |
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> dev-libs/libksba |
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> dev-libs/libpcre |
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> dev-libs/libyaml |
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> dev-libs/oniguruma |
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> dev-libs/openssl |
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> media-libs/libjpeg-turbo |
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> media-libs/libpng |
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> net-libs/libtirpc |
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> net-libs/serf |
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> sys-libs/cracklib |
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> sys-libs/glibc |
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> sys-libs/libcap |
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> sys-libs/timezone-data |
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> So, should I delete all of these? Even glib and glibc? |
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NO!!!! |
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You can't blindly use grep for this and equally blindly delete the |
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resulting list. |
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You have to consider what world is: A list of packages that YOU want |
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installed. Portage will pull in all the dependencies by itself to build |
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those packages. To decide is fomething should or should not be in |
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world, answer this question: |
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did you really intend to add the package to world directly, or did you |
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just emerge it because something else needed it? |
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Every package in world is there because you put it there, and the libs |
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are there becuase you should have used -1 and didn't. |
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You have to examine every entry in world and decide if you need it or |
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not. Also run --depclean to see if portage then wants to remove it or |
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not. |
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It's not easy, it's hard. |
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> Also - is there a definitive guide (preferably for non programmer |
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> types) on just how to properly clean the world file? |
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No. See above. |
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> Thanks. |
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