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Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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>>> Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that |
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>>> got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed, |
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>>> because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd |
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>>> like to find kde-i18n, because that used to be a dependency of |
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>>> kde-meta and kde-meta is no longer installed). |
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>> emerge --depclean |
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> thanks. 200 some packages, which would be removed. Quite a |
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> lot. |
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> After removing stuff, a revdep-rebuild should be done, shouldn't |
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> it? |
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> Michael |
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Yup :) I would also recommend removing packages by hand.....I won't go |
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into detail, but last time I didn't do that, it took me two weeks to |
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recover! |
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