Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?

[Richard Fish]

On 11/19/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> wrote:
> No and maybe. I don't use gtkdiff, so I obviously don't care, but a lot
> of the packages contain libraries. I don't know if I use them or not.

Are these listed in your world (/var/lib/portage/world) file?  If so,
remove them, do an "emerge -Nuv world".  After that, emerge --depclean
--pretend will show you things that are not needed anymore.  And of
course, --pretend --tree is the best way of determining what wants to
pull in certain libraries.  So you can remove them, and run emerge -v
--pretend --tree world to determine what is pulling in these things.

> Or is every user expected to go through the list of package dependencies
> (direct and indirect), examine them, and make a decision for each package?

emerge --depclean can be used to clean out unneeded libraries, but
that won't work if your world file is polluted with a bunch of
unnecessary things.  So in that case, yeah, you will have to things
"manually".

-Richard
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