Re: [gentoo-user] world's leaves

[Andrew Gaydenko]

======= On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Dale wrote: =======
> Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is there some simple way to find all portage leaves (packages from
> > which nothing depends on) of installed world?
> >
> >
> > Andrew
>
> 'emerge -p --depclean'  Two dashes before depclean
>
> Notice the warning that comes up right after you type that in.  Be VERY
> careful.  If for some crazy reason it uninstalls something critical,
> like python, then emerge may not work or worse yet, you could just crash
> and burn.  I suggest looking at the list and making sure anything listed
> can be removed and doing so manually.
>
> Also, run 'revdep-rebuild -i' after words just to be sure.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Thanks!
 
Be sure, I'll want to (manually) unmerge those packages I remember and 
understand what do they do :-)


Andrew