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On Saturday 27 February 2010 06:53:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote: |
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> > ----- Original Message ---- |
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> > |
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> >> From: Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
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> >> |
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> >>> On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: |
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> >>>>> From: Neil BothwickTo: |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> (PST), BRM wrote: |
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> >>>>>> Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge |
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> >>>>>> --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't |
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> >>>>>> install things left or right to try out either, so typically |
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> >>>>>> upgrades are all I need to do. |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> You should still run --depclean as dependencies change and you |
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> >>>>> could still have plenty of no longer needed ones installed. |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Okay - so I ran "emerge --depclean -a" and got the below. I tried |
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> >>>> running "emerge world -vuDNa" as specified, but that didn't resolve |
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> >>>> it either. |
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> >>>> I tried looking in the world file (/var/lib/portage/world) but didn't |
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> >>>> find any entries that felt safe to remove. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> "Safe" as to what? If something is in the world file that you didn't |
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> >> |
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> >> explicitly request, then it doesn't belong there. For example, if you |
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> >> have "x11-libs/qt-gui" in world, you should delete it. The world file |
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> >> should not contain dependencies, it should only contain the stuff you |
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> >> emerged directly. |
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> > |
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> > Okay...that kind of makes more sense now. |
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> > From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-no, |
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> > and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran |
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> > 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove now |
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> > that I've got that cleaned up. |
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> emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the |
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> world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in |
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> there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete |
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> something from world by hand, simply copy&pasting the line you want |
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> removed to "emerge -C <pasted line>" will have the same result. |
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> Of course there might be special cases I simply don't know about; so |
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> simply emerge -C instead of removing lines from world if you want to |
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> play it safe. |
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Does anyone know why regenworld adds a lot of what seem like dependencies into |
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world (e.g. qt libraries)? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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