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On Friday 22 May 2009 00:11:12 Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Edit the world file and remove every version number in that file if |
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> > present. You don;t need it and portage is infinitely better at tracking |
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> > it than you are. Then remove everything with a category ending in "lib", |
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> > these rarely need to be in world. |
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> Arrrgh! Does this mean that I shouldn't have all these in there: |
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> media-libs/libdvdcss |
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> media-libs/libdvdnav |
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> media-libs/libdvdread |
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> media-libs/libflash |
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> media-libs/libmodplug |
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> media-libs/libmp4v2 |
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> media-libs/libmpcdec |
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> media-libs/libmpeg2 |
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> media-libs/libmpeg3 |
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> media-libs/libogg |
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> media-libs/libpng |
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> media-libs/libquicktime |
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> media-libs/libsamplerate |
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> media-libs/libsdl |
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> media-libs/libtheora |
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> Also, as you can see from media-libs/libmpeg am I having duplicate packages |
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> in there? |
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Those are useful packages, so you probably do want them. Just not in world :-) |
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If --depclean wants to remove them, you could add them back, or look closely |
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at your media apps to see which USE has been removed. |
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libmpeg2 and libmpeg3 are different packages. The numbers are part of the |
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name, not a version number. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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