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From: Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:10:21
Message-Id: 20080629171018.GD4573@sympatico.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately? by Alan McKinnon
1 080629 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Doesn't that give you a huge world file ...
3
4 No: of course, I 'emerge -1' when the pkg is not marked 'W/S' in my pkg.ref.
5 Currently, 'world' lists 97 pkgs ; pkg.ref lists 513 pkgs.
6
7 > ... and no easy way to identify redundant and unused libs?
8
9 This is clear when a pkg is listed by 'eix-sync' but not 'emerge -Dup world':
10 then I can use 'equery d' to check whether anything depends on it.
11 If I remove a pkg by 'emerge -C', I move it to a "removed" list in pkg.ref
12 with the date I removed it & what it was installed for,
13 just in case something breaks (eg removing Ghostscript breaks printing):
14
15 REMOVED
16
17 080113 sys-apps/setarch-2.0 [for util-linux : conflict]
18 080301 x11-libs/motif-config-0.10-r2 [for openmotif : conflict]
19 080419 sys-apps/mktemp-1.5 [for debianutils]
20 080425 sys-libs/db-4.3.29-r2 [for python?]
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22 This way, I should always know exactly what is installed & why:
23 if not, it's my own fault for being careless.
24 That power over my system a big reason for using Gentoo (smile).
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