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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 01/02/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world |
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>> should be a package __I__ specifically want to use. Everything in |
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>> world (on my machines anyway) is something: |
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>> |
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>> 1) I'd call from the command line |
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>> 2) Need to write a little software myself, most specifically a library |
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>> 3) Aid in displaying things, like font packages |
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>> 4) Something required by Gentoo that I don't totally understand, like |
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>> a virtual package. |
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>> I just look through every so often and make sure everything seems to |
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>> meet those sorts of requirements. When I find a library or something |
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>> else then: |
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>> |
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>> 1) I make sure I'm clean with emerge -DuN @world AND emerge -p --depclean |
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>> 2) I'll delete the questionable item |
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>> 3) I'll see what happens with the two commands in #1 |
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>> To me it's pretty straight forward, but I'm also not bothered at all |
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>> by the idea that emerge package and emerge -u package do the same |
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>> thing. A machine that doesn't have a package, when updated, should |
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>> have the package and it should (IMO) be in world, but that's just me. |
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> Fine for your home PC, doesn't cut it on servers. I have the following in |
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> one of my world files: |
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> dev-php/PEAR-Mail |
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> dev-php/PEAR-Mail_Mime |
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> dev-php/PEAR-PEAR |
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> dev-php/PEAR-Structures_Graph |
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> |
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> which of those do I want? At least one of them was installed to support a |
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> customer's custom PHP application. Maybe all of them were and they all |
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> belong in world. No one knows, this server is older than the current |
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> --update behavior. |
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> So which ones can I remove? |
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> Solutions involving time travel and/or losing customers will be |
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> disqualified. |
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Make a backup copy of your world file. |
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1a. Remove those four lines. |
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2a. emerge -p --depclean |
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3a. Did any of those show up in the to-be-removed set? Add them back. |
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Alternately: |
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1b. emerge -pev --tree --with-bdeps=y @world |
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2b Find those packages in the output. The tree form of the display |
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will help you see if anything is depending on them. |
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3b. If anything is depending on them, you should be able to safely |
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remove them from your world file. I'd follow up with the 1a, 2a, 3a |
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solution to be sure. |
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