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If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run "vim /var/lib/portage/world", |
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:sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me, |
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but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or |
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if you have to chance something else. |
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Anthony E. Caudel wrote: |
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> There was a recent thread about about what should or should not be in |
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> the world file. |
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> Regarding that, my world file is bloated. Until recently, I had a |
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> tendency to do updates piecemeal but did not use --oneshot. This put |
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> packages in that I do not think belong. |
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> Looking for a means to clean up the world file, I ran across Ed Catmur's |
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> "dep". |
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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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> Tony |
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> BTW, I ran it with the --pretend option and it told me that 44 of the |
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> 119 packages in my world file were redundant. |
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