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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:30:54 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: |
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>> Has anyone here used it? Is it the best means available to clean the |
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>> world file? Anything in the gentoo tree to do this? |
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> I've done this manually in the past. Edit /var/lib/world and remove |
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> everything you think shouldn't be in there. Be brutal, if you never run |
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> the program directly, you probably don't want it in world. |
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> Then run "emerge --depclean --pretend". If this lists any packages you |
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> know you want (directly, not as dependencies) add them to world with |
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> "emerge -n package". |
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> Rinse and repeat. |
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> Finally, when everything listed by "emerge --depclean" is not something |
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> you want to keep, run it without --pretend. |
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Thanks Neil. I think I'll use this along with the recommendations of |
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dep. With 119 packages in the world file, I'll have to be VERY brutal. |
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Tony |
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