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On 5/7/21 6:57 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> I'm trying to clean up packages on a remote computer and running emerge --depclean list some packages that I am not sure about: |
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> Many of these packages are I see on my other systems and I think they are needed like: |
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> acct-group/video |
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> dev-libs/jansson |
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> dev-perl/Switch |
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> x11-libs/libvdpau |
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You mentioned this is a remote machine. Is it running X or not? If |
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it's a headless, machine, it doesn't seem unreasonable that emerge would |
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be removing unused X11 dependencies. |
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In any case, you could use the `equery depends` tool to determine what, |
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on your other machines, is depending on these packages, and use that |
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information to determine whether you accidentally removed something you |
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intended to install on this machine. |
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--depclean will only remove dependencies that are not required by |
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packages in your @world or selected profile. Removing these packages is |
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probably not going to break anything; you can always reinstall them |
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later if you need them. |
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cal |
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