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From: Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:24:17
Message-Id: CAHH9eM4_1BZp3WFjdfqyGOhJzSN68pzyA1A5Pwvnk1Qy4dmR2Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world by Arve Barsnes
1 2017-08-16 10:40 GMT-03:00 Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>:
2
3 > On 16 August 2017 at 13:32, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> But, after backing up the original "world" file and replacing with the
6 >> one built by the script, things don't work as expected, as a lot of
7 >> packages were orphaned, by checking with "depclean".
8 >>
9 >> Anyone could tell me what did I miss?
10 >>
11 >
12 > You're probably getting false positives from equery, as you haven't taken
13 > USE flags into consideration.
14 >
15 > An example:
16 > # equery d unrar
17 > app-arch/rar-5.5.0_p20170811 (all_sfx ? app-arch/unrar)
18 > app-emulation/winetricks-20170614 (rar ? app-arch/unrar)
19 >
20 > I don't have the USE="rar" set on winetricks, so although it is correct
21 > that rar would keep unrar available, since I have USE="all_sfx" set, your
22 > script will make the wrong choice if I don't have rar installed.
23 >
24 > Cheers,
25 > Arve
26 >
27
28 Good point! Back to work.
29
30 Thanks,
31 Francisco

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Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>