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From: Peter <sw98234@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:32:11
Message-Id: eduitq$dmf$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Are these packages safe to unmerge? by Mick
1 On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:41:14 +0100, Mick wrote:
2
3 > Hi All,
4 >
5 > Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown:
6 > =======================================
7 > Calculating dependencies... done!
8 >
9 >>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
10 >
11 > dev-perl/Archive-Zip
12 > selected: 1.16
13 > protected: none
14 > omitted: none
15 >
16 > dev-util/cvs
17 > selected: 1.12.12-r2
18 > protected: none
19 > omitted: none
20 >
21 > perl-core/Test-Simple
22 > selected: 0.62
23 > protected: none
24 > omitted: none
25 >
26 > dev-perl/Compress-Zlib
27 > selected: 1.41
28 > protected: none
29 > omitted: none
30 >
31 > x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev
32 > selected: 0.1.0.5
33 > protected: none
34 > omitted: none
35 >
36 > app-shells/tcsh
37 > selected: 6.14-r3
38 > protected: none
39 > omitted: none
40 >
41 > app-text/docbook-xml-dtd
42 > selected: 4.3
43 > protected: none
44 > omitted: 4.4-r1
45 >
46 > x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev
47 > selected: 1.0.0.5
48 > protected: none
49 > omitted: none
50 >
51 >>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
52 > =======================================
53 >
54 > Is it safe to remove them?
55
56 With the exception of tcsh, probably no. Run equery d {package} and see if
57 anything depends on them. The ones you show are pretty standard. You might
58 be able to dump the framebuffer, but check.
59
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge? Toby Cubitt <tsc25@××××××.net>